About our first fastmail.com customer
 

Today's FastMail Weblog:

http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/10/28/...-com-customer/

Seeing as the Fastmail team are basking in the warm fuzzy glow of a successful roll-out, I thought it would be interesting to hear about the success (or not) of getting your own fastmail.COM e-mail address.

Poll is anonymous.

Not enough options in the poll, so here's my write in:

Got my second choice preferred fastmail.COM address - roll-out process was fair.

Thanks to this site, and robn from fastmail, who gave us a heads up when things were going to go live, I was able to get the dot com address that I wanted.

I voted that I got the preferred name that I wanted and that it was fair in how they rolled it out.

I still wish that the people that had the .fm address would have gotten first dibs on the .com address, but all in all, it was handled as fairly as possible.

Thanks everybody......................

I use the .us address, but have been a Fastmail user for over 10 years now. Why would it be fairer for someone with .fm to go ahead of me?

Your point is well taken.

But, In my opinion, .fm was the name you registered because the .com version wasn't available.

I really don't believe all names are created equal.

Until the .com version was made available, the .fm took its place.

Just my opinion folks...............

Anything other than .com is a second choice.

Mankind is a selfish beast (at best) - you can bet your bottom dollar, that those who failed to get their preferred .com address, were not entirely happy with the process, especially if they owned a .fm address that they really liked.

yes, if i were not a member of this forum i very much doubt i would of been successful in getting my firstname@fastmail.com.

All of the firstname addresses I have owned (over the years) at good dot com domain's, have ended up (at the end of the day) becoming spam traps, and I have had to give them up.

If your first name is as rare as hen's teeth you might have better luck than I :)

As I stated in another thread, I did not get an e-mail from Fastmail about the roll-out.

It was only by luck - being active on this forum, and so being aware of when the roll-out was happening - that I got my preferred fastmail.com address.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have known about it.

Now I have this address, and already getting spam to it, I'm wondering if there's any way (rules/sieve) to make this particular address to accept whitelist (addresses in address book) only, and reject all others?

I don't get spam to my other addresses on this account, so just looking at the fastmail.com address only.

Two questions about FM the company
 

• Has FM been bought back from Opera?
• Fastmail.com is a canada company IIRC, has FM bought this company?

Thanks

Yes, last year: http://blog.fastmail.com/2013/09/25/...ss-from-opera/

You're talking about fastmail.ca. No, they are unrelated to FastMail.

There are four Fastmail notification selections in Advanced>Preferences. As far as I can tell, for "chatty" or "informative" notification preference notices were sent to all account levels (even grandfathered legacy Member and Guest accounts) on or about Oct 20. The notices show a green checkmark (using the normal web interface) and the subject was "FastMail is moving to fastmail.com". I don't know what happened if your notification selection was "important", and assume that you would not get a notice if you selected "none". I also recommend that you subscribe to the Fastmail blog at http://blog.fastmail.com to see additional information.
Yes, this is possible with either a discard rule or file into spam folder advanced rule. I will post the details in a few minutes.

Bill

Discard messages sent to certain aliases unless whitelisted
 

You can discard all messages sent to one or more aliases (unless they are whitelisted) as follows:

• Go to the Advanced>Rules>Discard tab
• Create discard rule(s) as follows:
  • Message with: To/Cc/Bcc
  • That: Contains
  • The text: {alias address you wish to discard}
  • Click Add
  • You can add additional aliases if you wish
  • Be sure to enable Skip reject rules on known sender near the bottom of the screen
  • Click Save changes
  • Click Apply all changes at the top

All messages sent to those specific aliases will be discarded unless any of these is true:

• The sender address is in the online address book
• The message is sent by Fastmail staff manually or automatically
• The secret word (defined on the discard page) is included in the subject or the To address

Bill

Yes, thanks for that info, Bill.

The skip reject rules on known sender near the bottom of the screen was confusing as it didn't seem to relate (to me anyway) to the discard option near the top of the screen.