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    FastMail is an Australian email provider with data facilities in New York. They provide web-based email, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, WAP & SMS services.


        FastMail
            Features
            Membership levels
            Reliability & Outages
            See also

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    Features

    The main attraction of the service is its speed - no images are used in the interface, with everything being text-based.

    Users can pick from over a dozen domain names for their address and can set up mail aliases so primary addresses can be protected from spammers. Messages can be composed as text, but WYSIWYG and HTML editors are available. Messages can be fetched from other email services to FastMail accounts and arrange for the service to automatically fetch messages every 3 or 12 hours.

    It also features a choice of simple or powerful interface.

    One uncommon feature of FastMail is its security. Logins are done over SSL by default, and SSL/TLS-wrapped IMAP is available. Though many mail providers provide IMAP, few provide encrypted access, and even fewer are priced as low as FastMail.

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    Membership levels

    There are four plans:

      Guest (free)
      Member ($14.95 one-time)
      Full ($19.95/year)
      Enhanced ($39.95/year)

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    Reliability & Outages
    Although FastMail's service is generally good, growing pains have resulted in the following multi-day outages:

      November 2005: 4 day outage for all users

      August 31, 2006. Access for affected users did not return completely until September 4, 2006, though some regained access as early as September 3, 2006. During the outage, messages were either queued for later delivery or bounced (Account being moved) back to the sender.

      October 27, 2006. Server 3 failed, resulting in 3 days of no access for affected users

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