Fastmail Restructuring

[Avion]

I don't see it as a 'promise', if you also take into consideration their first 2 points in their FAQ's:

https://www.pobox.com/faq

I expect though that many people will treat that 'email for life' as set in stone, and so I daresay Fastmail will get grief about it as they did back in 2017:

https://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=72418

[odedp]

Originally Posted by Avion

I don't see it as a 'promise', if you also take into consideration their first 2 points in their FAQ's:

https://www.pobox.com/faq

I expect though that many people will treat that 'email for life' as set in stone, and so I daresay Fastmail will get grief about it as they did back in 2017:

https://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=72418

Is shouldn't be a problem for Pobox to add their 15 domains to Fastmail's domains, so all their customers who use one of these domains won't have any issues if/when this happens.

[ReuvenNY]

It would be nice if Fastmail would reply to this thread and shad some light on the situation...

[Bamb0]

Yes it seems like they have been absent from here for awhile!!

[TenFour]

I noticed that Helen Horstmann-Allen, who came along when Fastmail acquired POBox.com, is no longer listed on the management team of FM. She was the COO of Fastmail. https://www.fastmail.com/company/about/

Having worked for another email service provider with many Australian clients I can say that it is very difficult for US teams to collaborate with those down under because of the time difference. I had to stay up until midnight or 2am to be able to cover some of their day, and after a couple of years I thought I was going to die from sleep deprivation. Where I live it was very hard to sleep after about 6am-7am because the neighbors would start moving trash cans or begin leaf blowing, plus everyone else in the household was up and about.

[Berenburger]

Originally Posted by TenFour

I noticed that Helen Horstmann-Allen, who came along when Fastmail acquired POBox.com, is no longer listed on the management team of FM. She was the COO of Fastmail. https://www.fastmail.com/company/about/

Helen was one of the founders of Pobox.

Also are out of staff: Rob Norris and Nicola Nye.
Although, they are from Australia.

[TheJapanese]

Yes - a lot of changes going on... Looks like Rob Mueller seems to be more in business than before... He now s the CTO of the company and it looks like he is much more in focus.

[Bamb0]

Ahh thats awesome!!

Robby is a good guy for sure

[hadaso]

Originally Posted by TenFour

I noticed that Helen Horstmann-Allen, who came along when Fastmail acquired POBox.com, is no longer listed on the management team of FM. She was the COO of Fastmail. https://www.fastmail.com/company/about/.

It seems that she is taking a break, and meanwhile is doing some consulting/mentoring, and that this started before the current restructuring took place.

[north]

thank god i left the sinking ship fastmail

[trikotret]

Originally Posted by north

thank god i left the sinking ship fastmail

Where you end up going?

[DumbGuy]

Shoot, is FM no longer run by the devs? I remember meeting Robert Norris (and Bron) as OScon in Oregon USA several years ago and being told how their flat hierarchical dev-run management style worked very well.

[Bamb0]

Its really sad........ At one point they said they were gonna keep the basic interface..... I guess that guy left the company

Its sad people dont ever keep doing what they say.......

[hadaso]

Originally Posted by DumbGuy

Shoot, is FM no longer run by the devs?

Why do you think so?
I see here Rob Mueller, one of the two original founders, and also Bron Gondwana and Neil Jenkins: both joined the team many many years ago, and developed the product from very early versions.

[TenFour]

Just for the record, another month has gone by with no POBox.com signup available. I believe this has been the case since January.

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