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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
I said governments and other third-party actors are not under our control. I never ever said that FastMail was not under our control. We do not participate in blanket surveillance. I am not sure how to make it any clearer than that. Perhaps
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
You've completely misunderstood the line you quote. FastMail as a company do not participate in blanket surveillance. We can't control the actions of any one else, governments or otherwise.
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Putting the Fast in FastMail(blog.fastmail.com)
10 points by robn_fastmail 12y ago|2 comments
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
Not sure what's about either. Like many rich-text editors, it can handle embedded images, but the attachment stuff proper is handled in the surrounding application.
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
> Even though Squire isn't meant as a drop-in replacement for web page editing, it still suffers from the same endemic issue that plagues all editors: browser inconsistency. Squire's purpose is to make things look on-screen and
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Standalone Mail Servers(blog.fastmail.com)
2 points by robn_fastmail 12y ago|0 comments
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Push it real good(blog.fastmail.com)
14 points by robn_fastmail 12y ago|0 comments
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
Sorry Alfie, your memory fails. We started with Sphinx. We use Elasticsearch elsewhere (ELK stack), but not for mail search.
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
Xapian is to Cyrus what Lucene is to Elasticsearch - the search engine embedded into the larger server.
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
> it's fairly well connected (on top of multiple transatlantic cables) Not as well as you'd think. We see substantial packet loss to Iceland for long periods at least once a week, and very occasionally the entire country disapp
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After 15 Years, FastMail Finally Acquires Their .Com – With Rob Mueller(domainsherpa.com)
4 points by robn_fastmail 12y ago|1 comments
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
Yeah, I've answered that questions a few times in the last couple of days. It was also asked a bit when first release the mobile web app a while back. It's on my list to bring it up with the UI team soon :)
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
> I wonder if other FastMail staff will have their own thoughts :) Ok, thanks for the nice soapbox, boss :) I've been at FastMail for ~2.5 years. The first 1.5 was as Opera. I haven't noticed a substantial difference between th
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Why You Should Charge from Day One(rocketship.fm)
31 points by robn_fastmail 12y ago|11 comments
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
> That's odd. I remember the K9 email client working on a phone with CyanogenMod and without Google Play or the other Google services and I was getting notifications on new emails. On Android platform notifications and push notifica
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
Not yet. We're working on a small server and client to act as a reference implementation, and there are longer-term plans to build it directly into Cyrus. We're also planning to do a proxy that you can put in front of any IMAP ser
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
It won't be this year. We hadn't even considered this feature before so it needs to be investigated and then if we want to do it, designed, implemented and tested. That doesn't have to take a lot of time, but we have other pr
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
Protocol and implementation complexity, the need for patent licensing and our desire to use standard protocol wherever possible.
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
> 1. Does your app have a passcode to open? No. We'll look into it. > 2. Can I move mails from spam to inbox and from inbox to Spam? Yes, tap the message while open and use the "report spam" or "not spam" butt
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
The application gets cached but the data does not. We're looking at ways to improve the initial load time. If you tap the message area when reading, a row of action buttons will appear. You can archive, delete, report spam, move to fol
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
At this point, there are no new laws. Its still being debated in Parliament and submissions are still being reviewed, so its not clear what the final act is going to look like, assuming it passes. So we can't really comment on its impa
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
> We have notification actions, extensibility, file sharing, and a Pebble SDK too, y'know. Apart from the Pebble SDK, most of those landed in iOS 8. We were already in testing at the time it came out and our lead developer was prepa
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
Haha. Yeah, they're in New York. Our offices are in Australia though, so its in our best interests to make sure things go fast! I can only imagine what it must be like for people actually in the US :)
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
Please contact support. That's definitely not right.
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
> Is the code on: http://jmap.io/server.html actual code? No, just pseudo-code. Right now we don't have a lot of real JMAP code. FastMail's implementation technically isn't JMAP. To write JMAP we took our
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
Its being developed.
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
Any CalDAV connector for Android will do the job. We recommend CalDAV-Sync: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.calda... Once we have CardDAV available, then we'll be recommending CardDAV-S
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
No, and it won't happen unless Apple open up their IMAP push channel. Now that our app is released we're unlikely to pursue this further.
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
> That's great to hear. Regarding the Android app having just checked it out, my first request, if you're taking them, is multiple account support. I can only log into one fastmail.com account at a time with what is here now. T
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by robn_fastmail 12y ago
We're hoping to overhaul our authentication system next year. App-specific passwords is on our list.

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