FastMail on Flo's Thoughts

FastMail Configuration Follow-Up

Fri, 13 Feb 2015 19:05:47 +0200

Just a quick update on my FastMail Configuration post: After I wrote that post I ran into some sync issues. Mail.app on OS X had massive problems listing the contents of my folders (and even listing those folders themselves), especially with folders located directly within INBOX.

I had a lengthy conversation with Yassar from the FastMail support team about this issue. We finally figured out that it seems to a bug in Mail.app and he later told me, that they tried to work around this for quite some time. He showed me some posts (1, 2) on their blog regarding similar issues going back as far as 2008.

FastMail Configuration

Sat, 07 Feb 2015 18:57:51 +0200

Yesterday I wrote about my move to FastMail and how smooth that went. I mentioned, that the only caveat was the fact that I had to manually configure the clients to work with FastMail’s IMAP and SMTP servers. This is not as simple as for Google Mail or Yahoo and required me some fine-tuning. So I thought it might be a good idea to share my configuration.

Update: Turns out, there was another issue. I wrote about that one in a (link: /blog/fastmail-configuration-follow-up text: separate post).

Leaving Gmail

Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:38:33 +0200

I’ve been meaning to do this as part of my Personal Security Audit project for quite a while now. It’s not that I don’t like Google at all but the power they gathered over the last couple of years with all their services made me feel quite uncomfortable. The same concerns apply to other services like Facebook as well, but that might be a completely different post.

So, first things first. The email server problem. I’d like to report on my experiences I had during that migration and what I ended up with.