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27 Jan 2022, 04:27 AM | #16 | |
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27 Jan 2022, 09:41 AM | #17 | |
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This raises the question of why a copy of the old web client isn't just kept around somewhere, if they don't intend to change the protocol. I get weird results with IMAP, depending on the client. For example, archived e-mails show up, likely because the concept of archiving isn't built into IMAP. |
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27 Jan 2022, 10:28 AM | #18 |
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I can't login though the JMAP demo client. This is not a great start.
https://jmap.io/jmap-demo-webmail/ Same if I try to go to the page directly. https://jmap.fastmail.com/.well-known/jmap Tried this with a created app and regular login. |
27 Jan 2022, 11:56 AM | #19 |
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I'm not going to be one of those people who tries to convince you to stay, but my personal feeling is that you're blowing some small things out of proportion. I haven't notice an outage of any significance for years. Well... you have your experience.
In truth, FM could be pretty bad in the early days... say up to about 2010. Some of us stuck it out for years because we liked a lot of features that couldn't be found elsewhere. This is still true. But also true: I have found the service to be extremely robust and stable for 10+ years now. Now I've got the features that I love and a mature company and team providing it. I was SOOO thankful when they separated from Opera. Nothing not to love now except the occasional minor irritation of minor UI features changed without my approval I'm not a super heavy user - just (I think) a normal casual user who spends an hour at most on email per day. Maybe that makes the difference in our divergent experiences? |
27 Jan 2022, 06:25 PM | #20 | |
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27 Jan 2022, 06:51 PM | #21 |
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Agreed. For an e-mail service that you're only paying literally pennies a day for, that is excellent value.
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27 Jan 2022, 07:33 PM | #22 |
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27 Jan 2022, 09:12 PM | #23 |
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I created an App password (with rights JMAP Mail) and the session sign in worked fine.
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28 Jan 2022, 07:33 AM | #24 |
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Which settings reverted on their own? Just curious as I am considering moving to Fastmail from Google Workspace, primarily due to customer service disappointment on Google's side.
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28 Jan 2022, 03:14 PM | #25 |
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I have personally never experienced that. What can happen (with Google even more than Fastmail) is that certain Settings screens require an explicit save before the new Settings take effect. Sometimes, users assume a reset has occurred when this is not the reality. I have certainly seen no evidence that randomly changing settings is a common occurrence in Fastmail.
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29 Jan 2022, 07:52 PM | #26 |
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29 Jan 2022, 08:00 PM | #27 | |
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Another was a DNS entry added that took down a page. (I'm pretty sure I checked the page was up and correct when I first moved the domain since it a slightly involved setup and all the other entries were there.) |
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29 Jan 2022, 08:33 PM | #28 |
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You seem experienced, and you would surely have considered this, but is it possible that you checked just after moving the domain's DNS, and some settings that had not yet timed out and had been retrieved from the old DNS server continued to be used?
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30 Jan 2022, 12:30 AM | #29 | |
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I remember switching over to Fastmail, the page going down, adding settings and eventually it was back up. I might have temporarily pointed to Fastmail's DNS servers to resolve so I could see the results faster. I didn't come back the next day to check. But because it was down first, I think its less likely DNS caching. |
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6 Feb 2022, 01:07 AM | #30 | |
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I'm extrapolating here but I feel like Fastmail is different from Google only in that they do not yet have the market share that Google does. And if/when they do have more users, it will actually be much worse than Google. |
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