Notices by Fastmail (fastmail@mastodon.social)

Hot take: "free" business email is one of the most expensive choices a small business can make.

Gmail is free because your data is the product. When you're handling client contracts and financial info, that's a real liability.

Fastmail: you pay for email, you get email, nobody reads your messages. Simple, private, reliable.

Learn more: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-businesses-are-switching-to-fastmail/

#SmallBusiness #EmailPrivacy #Fastmail #Company #BetterEmail #Email

We've just shipped a big update to Fastmail — multi-window support is here.

Hold ⇧ Shift when clicking reply or compose to open it in a new window. Use ⇧ Shift + R to reply, or ⇧ Shift + A to reply all. Replies now appear inline, so you stay in context while you write. Plus a cleaner compose view and drag-and-drop recipients.

Learn more: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/multi-window-support/

#Fastmail #Email #EmailMadeBetter #ProductivityTips

We’ve got something new for your desktop! 💻✨

Meet the Fastmail Desktop App, now available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

It’s the same Fastmail you love ❤️, now as a standalone app with native notifications, full offline support, and all the integrations you expect from your platform.

Ready to give it a go? Download, sign in, and enjoy a cleaner, more focused way to manage your email.

🔗 Read the full announcement: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/desktop-app/

#Fastmail #EmailMadeBetter #DesktopApp

📥 Fastmail’s inbox has been thoughtfully refreshed — now with a cleaner layout, improved usability, and more ways to customize your experience on web and mobile. #ProductivityTips #Fastmail

Learn more: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/revamped-inbox

🔮 On this spooky Friday the 13th, we're banishing bad luck from our DNS setup! Learn how Fastmail’s move to Knot DNS transformed potential domain nightmares into a streamlined, reliable dream.

Read about the change that keeps your email running smoothly.
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/moving-fastmail-dns-to-knot/
#FastmailAdvent

🚀 24 Days of Fastmail!
This December, we’re sharing 24 posts in 24 days! 🎉 Each day brings something new—insights into our standards work, team spotlights, product updates, or throwbacks to past favourites.

Visit the Fastmail Advent 2024 Overview to follow along daily. https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-advent-2024/

From today, we’re pleased to announce you can create passkeys for your Fastmail account giving you a faster, more secure way to log in.

Check out our blog to learn more:
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/introducing-passkeys/

Language is power!

Check out the latest Digital Citizen podcast episode to learn how linguistics expert Emily Bender is navigating the rise of AI, promoting transparency, and calling for regulations in synthetic media.

fastmail.com/digitalcitizen

Our team is always working to bring you the very best email experience possible!

Stay on top of product updates by looking at the “New” tab on the sidebar in your inbox 🌅

Last week, our Head of Special Projects @rjbs attended #FOSDEM.

FOSDEM is the largest open-source software conference in the world.

At Fastmail, we care deeply about developing open-source solutions, so having one of our team members in attendance was essential.

New Year, New Me & New Theme!

Switch up the look of your interface and utilize night mode or even customize your own color combinations.

You can add some flair to your organization by color-coding your labels or folders.

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/choose-your-ideal-colors-with-fastmail-themes/

On September 25th, Fastmail celebrated 10 years as our own company again.

Founded in Melbourne in 1999, original Fastmail was sold to Opera Software in 2010.

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-fm-has-been-acquired-by-opera-software/

Fastmail staff bought the service back in 2013 (and reclaimed our name).

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/exciting-news-fastmail-staff-purchase-the-business-from-opera/

I love using Fastmail's Snooze feature.

I often use it to make sure that I always have any time-sensitive event tickets or travel details visible on the exact day and time I need them to be.

Instead of digging through my email to find a theatre ticket I purchased three months ago, I snooze the email as soon as I receive it to the morning of the event day, so it always pops up right when I need it.

-Rasha, Fastmail Plumbing, US

We are excited to announce that we are bringing back Fastmail Advent. Historically, Advent was a series of posts on our blog written by Fastmail team members and posted between the 1st and 25th of December.

This year's advent is going to look a little bit different. It will be a slate of 25 posts on Mastodon around the theme of “#FastmailAdvent2023: 25 days of better email.” These posts will also be published on our blog on December 26th in a round-up of all staff answers.

Mastodon is our social network of choice for Fastmail Advent 2023 because we support their mission and share the same values. 

If you haven’t already, follow Fastmail on Mastodon today. We will be posting Mastodon-exclusive content for the rest of the month from our staff members about ways to get the most out of your Fastmail experience, tips about digital citizenship, and other exciting topics.
-@haleyhnatuk, Senior Marketing Specialist, US

Fastmail is here to support you!

That's why every support ticket is answered by a real email expert on our customer service and tech support team.

Whether it's quick fixes or more complicated situations, Fastmail is on your side.

You can check out our help pages or submit a support ticket through your help center:
https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us

The future of social networking is bright with Mastodon: collaborative community, unfiltered self-expression, data privacy, no ads or surveillance, and so much more.

We at Fastmail love posting on a platform that shares our values and creates a better online experience.

Fastmail makes email easy by providing fast, secure email services with great features.

SaneBox makes emailing easier by keeping your email organized. Now, Fastmail customers get $25 off an annual subscription to SaneBox.

Sign up and save today!
https://www.sanebox.com/fastmail

We're happy to be here on Mastodon with all of you -- thanks for welcoming us!