Advent Day 20: 💡How Fastmail uses Fastmail.
From Labels to Snooze and Schedule Send, we rely on our features every day. Curious how we use them? Discover tips from our team and find your new favourite feature!
🔗 Learn more: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/how-fastmail-uses-fastmail/
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Advent Day 19: ✉️ Building offline: mail storage. Neil Jenkins explores how Fastmail handles large volumes of data to make email access seamless—even when you're offline. This marks the final post in our offline mini-series.
Read more: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/offline-mail-storage/
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Dec 18: 🔄 Building offline: syncing changes. How do we sync offline changes? Our hybrid approach logs changes & patches updates for efficient syncing & smooth conflict resolution. Edits merge seamlessly when back online.
Read more: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/offline-sync/
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17: 🔨 Building offline: general architecture. In today’s Advent post, Neil Jenkins explores the architecture behind Fastmail’s new offline support. Learn how we built a caching layer to handle JMAP requests directly on your device.
Read more: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/offline-architecture/
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Advent Day 15: 🙌 Behind Fastmail's platform magic lies a strong team and a clear working agreement. From proactive monitoring to collaborative problem-solving, our platform engineers ensure reliability.
Learn more: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/platform-team-working-agreement/
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Day 14 of our Advent Series: 🚨Dive into the tech behind Fastmail's on-call systems! From alerts and incident management to balancing engineer well-being, see how we keep services running smoothly.
Read more: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/on-call-systems/
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🔮 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/
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Dec 12:☀️Following the Sun. How does Fastmail deliver 24/7 support? With a "Follow the Sun" model, our teams ensure seamless, round-the-clock service.
Learn how we keep the mail flowing: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/following-the-sun/
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Day 11 of #FastmailAdvent: Meet Marc, our Head of the new Trust, Abuse, and Deliverability team. With 10+ years at Fastmail, he ensures smooth mail flow, loves memos & labels, and stays active cycling.
Read more 👉
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/meet-the-team-marc/
Day 10 of our Advent series: After 30 years, Pobox has merged into Fastmail. A bittersweet end of an era but a smooth transition to an exciting new chapter. Thanks to everyone who made it happen—here’s to the future!
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/sunsetting-pobox/
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Dec 9: 🛠️ Building our blog, as part of #FastmailAdvent, we’re taking a look at how we transformed our blog—moving from WordPress to Eleventy for simplicity, speed, and efficiency.
👉 Read more: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/building-a-blog/
Dec 8: 🌟 Guiding Principles. Our principles shape everything we do:
🌐 Be a good internet citizen
🔧 Build the future
🤔 Seek understanding
💬 Value discussion
These values guide us to deliver better email, read more: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/principles/
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Dec 7: 💌 Revision of the Core Email Specifications. The IETF is updating core email standards (SMTP & IMF) for clarity and modern use—keeping email running smoothly since 2008.
Learn about the updates shaping email’s future:
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/revision-of-core-email-specifications/
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Fri 6: 🌟 Dive into the world of Twoskip—Fastmail’s innovative way to speed up database queries and improve performance.
Read more: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/twoskip-and-more/
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📢 Dec 5: MySQL InnoDB innodb_trx is cached. Rob Mueller dives into transaction IDs and MODSEQ optimisation.
Learn how caching impacts ID generation and how Fastmail tackled the challenge for smoother JMAP syncing.
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/mysql-innodb-trx-id/
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Dec 4: 👋 Meet Bek, our Head of People & Culture! In 10 months, she’s built a global skills framework and shaped our culture. Her fave feature? Memos! Outside work, she loves music, DIY, and her pup Baxter.
Learn more: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/meet-the-team-bek/
Dec 3: On Moving House – Bringing a new Data Centre Online. Fastmail moved both our Data Centers in just a few weeks in July this year.
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/moving-house-new-datacentre/
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Dec 2: ⏪ Throwback: Security - Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. Security is more than just encryption - read about how Fastmail balances security considerations.
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/throwback-security-confidentiality-integrity-availability/
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Dec 1: Our Mission Statement is at the core of everything we do—from providing fast, reliable service with real human support to leading the way in standards and open source innovation.
Learn more in the first post of our 2024 Advent series. https://www.fastmail.com/blog/mission-statement/
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🚀 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/
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