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FastMail offers paid email accounts for individuals and organizations, with varying service levels and prices. Their individual accounts currently offer a |
FastMail offers paid email accounts for individuals and organizations, with varying service levels and prices. Their individual accounts currently offer a 30-day free trial period. |
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FastMail also provides for two-factor login using a [[YubiKey]]. While associating one or more YubiKeys with your FastMail account will not prevent normal logins, it does allow for logging onto your email account with just a YubiKey and its auto-generated one time passwords, making it suitable for accessing email on public machines. |
FastMail also provides for two-factor login using a [[YubiKey]]. While associating one or more YubiKeys with your FastMail account will not prevent normal logins, it does allow for logging onto your email account with just a YubiKey and its auto-generated one time passwords, making it suitable for accessing email on public machines. |
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Revision as of 21:53, 7 June 2015
Type of site | Webmail |
|---|---|
| Owner | FastMail Pty Ltd |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | 1999 |
| Current status | Online |
FastMail is an email service offering paid email accounts for individuals and organizations. The company is FastMail Pty Ltd of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.[1] In 2010 the company was acquired by Opera Software. On September 26, 2013, FastMail announced that it had split from Opera and became a privately held independent company.[2] Its servers are located in New York City and Iceland.
History
The provider's sole product line is email services (and included accessories), but it was owned by Opera Software, (known best for its web browser) from 2010 to 2013.[3][4][5][6]
On October 18, 2012 it was announced that new signups for the free service level had been discontinued.[7] Existing free FastMail accounts would not be discontinued, but if a free account was deactivated because it was not logged into in over 120 days, it would not be reactivated. The company stated that they had decided to focus FastMail as a "premium brand" with only paid accounts.
When first established in 1999, the service was intended to differentiate itself through providing features that were not yet available from other market players. Early on, this included the ease and speed of email transport and access, personalities and IMAP[8] and SSL[9] support, and an independent public forum[10] and wiki among user support options. Over the years, these features became commonplace, but features such as WebDAV, secure LDAP, opportunistic inter-server encryption, reliability via minimization of single points of failure, and highly customizable filtering via Sieve are current differentiators, and other enhancements typically appear on pace with the market.
On October 23, 2014, FastMail moved their primary domain from fastmail.fm to fastmail.com.[11]
Technology
The site developers are among the most active contributors to the widely used Cyrus IMAP open source software project[12] and include the lead developer and maintainer of Perl module Mail::IMAPTalk.[13] They are actively developing JMAP - a new open email protocol.[14]
FastMail offers paid email accounts for individuals and organizations, with varying service levels and prices. Their individual accounts currently offer a 30-day free trial period.
FastMail also provides for two-factor login using a YubiKey. While associating one or more YubiKeys with your FastMail account will not prevent normal logins, it does allow for logging onto your email account with just a YubiKey and its auto-generated one time passwords, making it suitable for accessing email on public machines.
See also
References
- ^ Wright, Charles (2002-10-07). "FastMail reinvents a slicker, quicker wheel". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
- ^ "FastMail became a privately held independent company". CEOWORLD Magazine. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
- ^ "Opera targets mobile with email acquisition". The Register. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ "Opera Software purchases Melbourne-based email provider - opera software, FastMail.fm - ARN". Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2010/04/30/
- ^ "FastMail.FM has been acquired by Opera Software". Retrieved 21 August 2010.
- ^ "Changes to FastMail service levels".
- ^ Wright, Charles (2002-10-17). "The host with the most". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
- ^ Fleishman, Glenn. Take Control of Your AirPort Network.
- ^ "Welcome to the Fastmail.FM General Discussions Forum".
- ^ "FastMail has moved to fastmail.com, @fastmail.com email addresses now available".
- ^ http://www.emailserviceguide.com/2009/10/interview-with-jeremy-howard-of-fastmail-fm/
- ^ Blank-Edelman, David N. (2009). Automating system administration with Perl. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-596-00639-6.
- ^ http://jmap.io/index.html