7 ms·
Fastmail Down?
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- barbariangrunge 4y agoNot sure why this is flagged. It explained last night why my emails were it appearing in peoples inboxes during a small window
- dimastopel 4y agoI get 503 Service Unavailable but their status page [0] says all green. [0] https://www.fastmailstatus.com/ https://www.fastmailstatus.com/
- romseb 4y agoAs always. At this point, status pages seem to be only useful for previous issues. The beta interface still seems to be working for me: https://beta.fastmail.com/login/ https://beta.fastmail.com/login/
- orangepurple 4y agoThe status page was updated 4 minutes after parent message
- romseb 4y agoFair enough, but at that point it was already down for at least 15 minutes for me.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- LeoPanthera 4y ago"Access to the Fastmail web interface is currently offline. We are currently looking into it." https://www.fastmailstatus.com https://www.fastmailstatus.com Edit: Seems to be fixed now.
- hcurtiss 4y agoiOS app down too. Must use web interface. Wonder if Fastmail engineers use iOS.
- hcurtiss 4y agoIt’s a little alarming to discover that when Fastmail is down I have access to literally none of my email. No local cache.
- boardwaalk 4y agoThey do have IMAP...
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- gw99 4y agoThis is one reason I switched to Apple's mail services. Apple's client is 100% offline and it all just sort of works without having to fuck around with IMAP settings.
- CoolCold 4y agoHow come? No jokes, even free tool like thunderbird has local cache, not even mentioning The Bat and Outlook. Cannot imagine.
- masklinn 4y agoPossibly the JMAP endpoints are down but IMAP still works, something along those lines?
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- barbazoo 4y agoThese status pages are just useless. I've never encountered one that actually reflected the status of their observed service.
- 4dregress 4y agolooks like it.
- lrae 4y agoYes. > 8 Oct 2022 18:42:08 UTC > Access to the Fastmail web interface is currently offline. We are currently looking into it. https://www.fastmailstatus.com/ https://www.fastmailstatus.com/
- n3storm 4y agoThis happens to me a lot: "Mail is not working!" "Meh, just roundcube instance is out of resources"
- ackatz 4y agoI can still send and receive emails using a client.
- DMell 4y agoYup - has been flawless for years but feel like recently there have been more and more issue.
- dewey 4y agoBased on their status page the only issues in the past 7 months were regular "some routing issue on the internet" related issues, which are not really avoidable. Personally I never had an issue and definitly don't have a "more and more issues recently" feeling.
- capableweb 4y ago> past 7 months were regular "some routing issue on the internet" related issues, which are not really avoidable Being available in more than one location and being able to fail-over to other instances does solve this.
- cmeacham98 4y agoNo, it doesn't, not if your inbound traffic is being routed incorrectly. It might reduce the blast radius though.
- detritus 4y agoInteresting to see how many here use the web interface, as I do :)
- nopenopenopeno 4y agoIt’s a very good web interface imo
- systemvoltage 4y agoIt is absolutely my favorite and very different than most UIs out there. I wish more UIs were like FastMail. It is super snappy.
- detritus 4y agoIt is... although I regularly hit performance problems when email chains get a bit long - even not extraordinarily-busy ones less than a month or so long.
- dewey 4y agoThird party clients, ~their app~ and the http://betaapp.fastmail.com http://betaapp.fastmail.com still work. This only seems to affect their regular web interface.
- derex 4y agoTheir ios app is inaccessible at the moment too
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- barbazoo 4y agoThe android app I'm using isn't working so it seems to be more widespread.
- classichasclass 4y agoAndroid app on this Pixel 6 seems okay.
- cmeacham98 4y agoOfficial Android app doesn't work for me, but I was under the impression it was just a WebView? My backup app that uses IMAP is 100% working.
- MerelyMortal 4y agoOfficial Fastmail Android app is working for me.
- anttiharju 4y agoFor me the official android app is stuck on loading.
- josteink 4y agoMy takeaway from this post is that among the HN-crowd, FastMail is now big enough to warrant a front-page story. Maybe the days of the complete gmail mono-culture here is finally at an end?
- geerlingguy 4y agoSadly outside of me, and a few colleagues/friends who actually have heard of Hacker News, I know of nobody who has email through anything other than gmail (and the occasional yahoo or AOL holdout who just has an email address from the 'old days'). I think on HN it's front page news, but those of us who browse here (and even fewer, those who comment and upvote) are a tiny sliver of the Internet. There are a few people who have corporate email addresses that aren't @gmail.com, but probably 30% is through GSuite, and the other 70% is through Office 365 or Exchange.
- 93po 4y agoI've seen these posts for several years now
- CoolCold 4y agoGmail monoculture? Sounds like wishful thinking for me. On premise and/or Outlook considered to be 0 by such statements. Any stats behind this?
- squarefoot 4y agoThe web interface seems down, however using pop/smtp with Claws Mail worked: I just did a send/receive test from and to my Fastmail account succesfully. Edit: it appears now the web interface works as well.
- kome 4y agoit works for me
- thejteam 4y agoMaybe just in certain regions? Web page is working for me. East Coast USA. Or they fixed it already.
- olex 4y agoIt was down for me for a while, but is now back up. Western Europe.
- kome 4y agoit works in europe as well.
- 369548684892826 4y agoWas offline here but it's just come back.
- e63f67dd-065b 4y agoInteresting to see how many of the HN crowd use the web interface. I would've thought that this would be the one place on the internet where web interface usage would be the lowest and IMAP clients the highest. Personally I just use Apple Mail, it's good enough at what it does.
- kls0e 4y agoexcellent application.
- tpmx 4y agoAgreed. I'm annoyed by one thing: the font weights of the read email titles are a bit too heavy and black in the list of emails, making it unnecessarily hard to distinguish them from unread emails with a quick glance. The blue dot doesn't really help much IMO. Gmail with all of its faults still nails this.
- function_seven 4y agoWhen I switched over to Fastmail, my intent was to use clients for reading and composing. As soon as I started using the web interface, I realized it was better than running a separate mail application. On iOS is still use the default Mail app, but on my two desktops the web app is fantastic.
- gzer0 4y agoI must say, I've got too many catch-all domain's on my Fastmail. Somewhere to the order of 30 to 40 domains lol. Weird obsession.
- yosito 4y agoI haven't found any clients that can handle replying with wildcard aliases, which is a feature I use several times a day. If anyone has a recommendation, I'd be very grateful!
- beagle3 4y agoThunderbird has had it for ages - you do need to pick it from the menu (“customize from address”) for completely free form. You can also set up multiple identities to pick from for the more frequent addresses you use; I set up the 6 most used, and now only need to use the “customize..l option about once a week (compared to several a day before, like you)
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- naavis 4y agoSeems to work fine right now.
- HHalvi 4y agoBackup and was working until a few minutes back, looks like it's down again.
- jemurray 4y agoIt’s been hit and miss all morning. Sometimes it will retrieve and send mail, other times the the progress bar pulses along like it’s trying without success. The status page says everything is ok. If any of their engineers are listening and the problem is geolocated, I’m in the St. Louis, MO USA area.