Question about new alias interface

[ChinaLamb]

Originally Posted by FredOnline

And you can have any color (so long as it's black).

Haha

600 email aliases... so limiting...

[gj15]

Originally Posted by n5bb

This is very interesting. It appears (after some testing) that you can create as many aliases as you wish (up to 600) at any length (of at least 2 characters) with an Enhanced account.

Family accounts have also benefitted from a change. It now seems that Family account alias quantity limits are "600 + 15 per user in the account" with the same creation criteria regardless of the level of the user accounts within the Family account.

https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/limits.html

[gardenweed]

Originally Posted by rusl

I find it so confusing how they renamed Personalities to Accounts.

I like to think that I have one Fastmail account which can send from any of my different personalities. Now I have to think that I have one Fastmail account that has several Accounts. I wonder if there is a reason for the change.

.......

Just to add even more confusion...
When you create a new Folder, you get to choose the default Personality/Account associated with that Folder.
However in the Folder creation screen, this is actually referred to as the Default identity.
So yet another term to describe the same thing.

[neilj]

We now use the word identity to refer to what used to be personalities. See our help page for more detail on identities: https://www.fastmail.com/help/send/identities.html

The Accounts settings screen lets you configure both Identities and Pop Links for a single account. Identities may also be associated with Aliases (and a matching identity is created automatically if you create an alias that targets your own user).

[gardenweed]

Originally Posted by neilj

We now use the word identity to refer to what used to be personalities. See our help page for more detail on identities: https://www.fastmail.com/help/send/identities.html

The Accounts settings screen lets you configure both Identities and Pop Links for a single account. Identities may also be associated with Aliases (and a matching identity is created automatically if you create an alias that targets your own user).

Except Neil, in the Account creation page, where you define the Identity name, you actually call the field "Nickname", not Identity.
Can you not see that all these names create a lot of confusion?

[neilj]

The identity is the whole thing (email address, name, settings etc.). The nickname is just that: a nickname for the identity for you to identify it easily in internal use.

FastMail provides a lot of powerful features, far more than just about everyone else. Unfortunately, this means some things are more complicated (aliases are not a one-to-one map with identities, and belong to the account not the individual user, so cannot be combined into a single screen; identities can also be configured for external accounts, which may or may not also have a POP link).

[JMac]

Neil,

There should be clearer definitions for each of the new terms. Right now it appears that these are probably somewhat clear to whoever made the changes - but not necessarily to others.

Jim

[fmail_fan]

Originally Posted by JMac

Neil,

There should be clearer definitions for each of the new terms. Right now it appears that these are probably somewhat clear to whoever made the changes - but not necessarily to others.

Jim

i agree. It would be very helpful to have definitions and examples, perhaps on the Identities page that Neil referred to or a separate definitions page for this topic. We're confronted with Users, Accounts, Aliases, Identities, POP Links, Names, Nicknames...

[janusz]

How can anyone confuse POP Links with Names, Aliases, Identities &c?

[Fuzzy Logic]

I double checked with my other e-mail hoster for the correct settings for the "fetch" interface in FM, but I keep getting an error message when I check the server settings. I sent in a ticket but I don't expect I'll hear for days. Anyone using fetch OK?