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Nice. :) Reading this in the context of this thread made me setup my own trial account, with a new domain name. As soon as those MX records propagate, I'll be g

by sundvor 10y ago

Nice. :) Reading this in the context of this thread made me setup my own trial account, with a new domain name. As soon as those MX records propagate, I'll be good to test it for a while. Wish you had a dark theme, that'd be my only feedback for now (Stylish also works). Appears to be very fast, but of course, my account is 100% empty.

x0x0 10y ago
ime: it stays very fast, even with 1.5k emails in inbox, ~30k emails / 2.5G total in various folders. Also, changes propagate faster even than gmail. If you have your inbox open on 2 computers and move an email out of your inbox on one of them, you'll see it replicated in near real time on the second computer. I don't know how they do it, but it works really well.
- brongondwana 10y ago
  You can know how we do it if you like: https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/02/dec-3-push-it-real-good/ https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/02/dec-3-push-it-real-good... and how we do the initial load as well: https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/15/dec-15-putting-the-fast-in-fastmail-loading-your-mailbox-quickly/ https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/15/dec-15-putting-the-fast...
  - x0x0 10y ago
    Thanks, that was fascinating. And props to the salt-n-pepa fan!
- sundvor 10y ago
  Interesting, thanks for that. I'm up and running on my own domain after waiting for the domain name server to transfer from Bluehost where I registered the domain. I did start out doing manual configuration until deciding I might as well use Fastmail's; their DNS config page is rather nicely laid out. Was very easy in the end, but must admit I had forgotten just about everything I once learned about DNS. As such it was nice to get a little refresher. EDIT: I would probably have gone for Google Apps / G Suite if not for this article. So, yeah, hope it served Google well to freeze those accounts with no warning.

by sundvor 10y ago

x0x0 10y ago

ime: it stays very fast, even with 1.5k emails in inbox, ~30k emails / 2.5G total in various folders. Also, changes propagate faster even than gmail. If you have your inbox open on 2 computers and move an email out of your inbox on one of them, you'll see it replicated in near real time on the second computer. I don't know how they do it, but it works really well.

brongondwana 10y ago
You can know how we do it if you like: https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/02/dec-3-push-it-real-good/ https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/02/dec-3-push-it-real-good... and how we do the initial load as well: https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/15/dec-15-putting-the-fast-in-fastmail-loading-your-mailbox-quickly/ https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/15/dec-15-putting-the-fast...
- x0x0 10y ago
  Thanks, that was fascinating. And props to the salt-n-pepa fan!
sundvor 10y ago
Interesting, thanks for that. I'm up and running on my own domain after waiting for the domain name server to transfer from Bluehost where I registered the domain. I did start out doing manual configuration until deciding I might as well use Fastmail's; their DNS config page is rather nicely laid out. Was very easy in the end, but must admit I had forgotten just about everything I once learned about DNS. As such it was nice to get a little refresher. EDIT: I would probably have gone for Google Apps / G Suite if not for this article. So, yeah, hope it served Google well to freeze those accounts with no warning.