fastmail.fm Home Page ????

loveanale · 6 Jan 2005, 02:31 PM

fastmail.fm Home Page ????

I can not find a way to get to the FastMail home page. Every link I click on I am directed immediately to my fastmail.fm email box ??? I have tried for the last 10 minutes on different pages & sites but ALWAYS end up in my fastmail.fm email ??

Any suggestions ??

**ReuvenNY** · 6 Jan 2005, 02:41 PM

Yes. When in the Inbox, click on Logout. Next time you will get the home page.

6 Jan 2005, 02:46 PM

Or go to one of the other domains, e.g. http://www.sent.com.

loveanale · 7 Jan 2005, 02:00 AM

Thanks, both suggestions worked perfectly.

FMradio · 7 Jan 2005, 10:20 PM

hi,

now that your login problem has actually been solved by other helpful posters, you might be entertained by one of these alternate FastMail login pages:
https://www.fastmail.fm/mail/login/?...reen=tiny.html

(I have this one bookmarked as my prefered FastMail login page)

Also, a bit less minimal:
http://www.fastmail.fm/mail/login/?S...een=basic.html

Just found these today while looking through the FastMail wiki ....

snsh · 7 Jan 2005, 10:34 PM

are there any more-typeable cnames or redirects to those pages?

8 Jan 2005, 12:35 AM

None AFAIK (you can remove "login/" and use a shorter domain name, but that's all) - but I think it's a good idea to add them.

kander · 8 Jan 2005, 08:34 AM

There was some discussion about using subdomain addresses like 'login.fastmail.fm' or 'quick.fastmail.fm' for these login screens, but for some reason nothing was done with that.

snsh · 9 Jan 2005, 02:11 AM

anybody with a cool domainname care to volunteer a 301 redirected CNAME?

bitequator · 9 Jan 2005, 03:09 AM

^ It wouldn't work unless FM configures their server to respond to that domain name.

FMradio · 10 Jan 2005, 10:46 AM

This may be a bit of a hack, but seems to work okay for me -

create an index.html page with the following code:

Quote:

Using this with FastMail file storage webspace - I created alias "tinytest" and created folder "tinytest.fastmail.fm" which contains the index.html file listed above.

I'll leave this up for a while in case anyone wants to try it out at http://tinytest.fastmail.fm (but will probably take it down eventually if it eats up too much bandwidth quota).

Would it be as easy for FastMail to setup an official version for this or are there potential complications?

Also - another (better?) way to do this would be via an .htaccess file:

Quote:

RedirectPermanent / https://www.fastmail.fm/mail/login/?SLN-LoginScreen=tiny.html

But since FastMail file storage webspace doesn't allow upload of .htaccess files (or any filenames beginning with ".") I didn't test this out there ...

I think either of these methods should work with any domain name though - was just convenient for me to use FastMail webspace. (I'll have to test it out with a domain outside of their namespace to confirm this at some point.)

The important thing is, anyone who has a FastMail account that allows access to file storage / web space and an alias to spare could setup their own custom subdomain pointing to the tiny login page if they are so inclined.

EDIT: confirmed both these methods work with non-FastMail domains. (Sorry, but I don't have any cool email domain name to donate for this ...). Should note that the ".htaccess" method assumes using Apache webserver, and that the "/" directory specified in the code should be changed to whatever specific directory name you want to devote to the login page: ie, change this to "/mail" to setup redirection for "example.com/mail". Also be aware some (very old, and maybe very new?) browsers may not handle these redirect / refresh hacks.

robert@fm · 11 Jan 2005, 02:43 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by kander
There was some discussion about using subdomain addresses like 'login.fastmail.fm' or 'quick.fastmail.fm' for these login screens, but for some reason nothing was done with that.

IIRC login.fastmail.fm used to work, but someone registered "login" as their username, and that plus the file storage feature means that this URL doesn't work as a login page any more.

FMradio · 11 Jan 2005, 06:15 AM

Quote:

IIRC login.fastmail.fm used to work, but someone registered "login" as their username, and that plus the file storage feature means that this URL doesn't work as a login page any more.

ok ... ironic - now the situation is more like: someone else made use of a different alias plus the file storage feature to kludge http://tinytest.fastmail.fm which seems to work well enough as an alternate login page, for now at least.

(I refrained from registering catchier "login" aliases in case FastMail might actually want to use any of them for a more official implementation ....)

6 Jan 2005, 02:31 PM	#1
loveanale Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: The Great North West :-) Posts: 18	fastmail.fm Home Page ???? fastmail.fm Home Page ???? I can not find a way to get to the FastMail home page. Every link I click on I am directed immediately to my fastmail.fm email box ??? I have tried for the last 10 minutes on different pages & sites but ALWAYS end up in my fastmail.fm email ?? Any suggestions ??

6 Jan 2005, 02:41 PM	#2
ReuvenNY Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: New York Posts: 4,259	Yes. When in the Inbox, click on Logout. Next time you will get the home page.

6 Jan 2005, 02:46 PM	#3
Daniel S Guest Posts: n/a	Or go to one of the other domains, e.g. http://www.sent.com.

7 Jan 2005, 02:00 AM	#4
loveanale Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: The Great North West :-) Posts: 18	Thanks, both suggestions worked perfectly.

7 Jan 2005, 10:20 PM	#5
FMradio Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: California Posts: 85	hi, now that your login problem has actually been solved by other helpful posters, you might be entertained by one of these alternate FastMail login pages: https://www.fastmail.fm/mail/login/?...reen=tiny.html (I have this one bookmarked as my prefered FastMail login page) Also, a bit less minimal: http://www.fastmail.fm/mail/login/?S...een=basic.html Just found these today while looking through the FastMail wiki ....

7 Jan 2005, 10:34 PM	#6
snsh Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Boston Posts: 611	are there any more-typeable cnames or redirects to those pages?

8 Jan 2005, 12:35 AM	#7
Daniel S Guest Posts: n/a	None AFAIK (you can remove "login/" and use a shorter domain name, but that's all) - but I think it's a good idea to add them.

8 Jan 2005, 08:34 AM	#8
kander The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 4,112	There was some discussion about using subdomain addresses like 'login.fastmail.fm' or 'quick.fastmail.fm' for these login screens, but for some reason nothing was done with that.

9 Jan 2005, 02:11 AM	#9
snsh Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Boston Posts: 611	anybody with a cool domainname care to volunteer a 301 redirected CNAME?

9 Jan 2005, 03:09 AM	#10
bitequator The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: USA Posts: 2,978	^ It wouldn't work unless FM configures their server to respond to that domain name.