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Fastmail
Company blog · fastmail.com/blogproductivityprogramming
Fastmail is the company blog at fastmail.com, writing about productivity and programming. Since 2014, 321 different Hacker News readers have linked it 485 times, most often “Fastmail service completely offline for the first time in years”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Fast, private email hosting for you or your business. More productive, lightning fast, simple and built to save you time.
Most-linked posts?
- Fastmail service completely offline for the first time in years39 people · 48 mentions · first linked 2014-10-30
- FastMail has moved to FastMail.com21 people · 22 mentions · first linked 2014-10-23
- /pricing/17 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2016-10-30
- /help/receive/addressing.html14 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2016-03-12
- /about/privacy.html12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2015-04-09
- /help/account/limits.html11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2015-11-05
- /8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-11-14
- /help/ourservice/security.html7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-06-27
- /help/receive/alias-catchall.html6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2018-01-26
- Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-09-28
What Hacker News says?
I've been a happy customer of https://www.fastmail.com/ for some years now (and used Gmail before). I highly recommend them for anyone considering leaving Gmail. You pay them with money instead of data.
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on “How Firefox Got Fast Again”Submitted Why we use our own hardware as a story · 933 points
HN discussionhttps://www.fastmail.com/pricing/ Or $50 / year if you want a custom domain.
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on “Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook”Submitted Integrating with Fastmail as a story · 566 points
HN discussionFastMail can pull from gmail. My account pulls from all emails I use minus work and can send on those addresses so. It also supports having a different signature depending on which address I'm sending from. See https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/migratetofastmail.html No connection to them, just a happy customer!
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on “Mozilla VPN”Submitted Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password as a story · 377 points
HN discussionYou can setup wildcard alias in fastmail ( https://fastmail.com ) and literally create addresses on the fly when signing up/sharing your email.
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on “The Dropbox hack is real”Submitted Fastmail desktop app as a story · 186 points
HN discussionunique-per-service email addresses sound indeed interesting. How did you set it up? I am a google apps customer and already have a few 20 aliases in there but having to go through their UI every time I sign up seems very tiresome. Can I create a wildcard email in the terms of service-*@bar.com being a alias of email foo@bar.com? Do you know of a non-selfhosted provider that is able to do that? /EDIT: Looks like fast…
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on “The Dropbox hack is real”Submitted Email immutability matters more in a world with AI as a story · 166 points
HN discussionThe question was if email providers have to choose misleading people about privacy or going out of business. Specifically about IP logs. Fastmail's privacy page says "Your data is for you and no one else".[1] So they do mislead about that. I didn't see anything about IP logs though. And Fastmail was just an example. [1] https://www.fastmail.com/privacy-and-security/
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on “Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address”Submitted Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation as a story · 129 points
HN discussion> brilliant, ethical, and pragmatic In case it's news to others, as it was to me, Fastmail routinely acquires SSL certificates for its customers' domains without their knowledge or consent. https://www.fastmail.com/help/files/secure-website.html
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on “Email is your electronic memory”Submitted Understanding Email Encryption (2025) as a story · 125 points
HN discussionI do want to use Fastmail, but their ToS are no better than Gmail i.e, that they can terminate your account any time for any reason whatsoever. Source : https://www.fastmail.com/about/tos.html This is the biggest reason I am hesitant to try fastmail.
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on “Email is your electronic memory”Submitted The Future of Email as a story · 112 points
HN discussionWhy not use 2FA with Fastmail? https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/2fa.html
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on “Email is your electronic memory”Submitted Ten Years of JMAP as a story · 103 points
HN discussionI don't want to feel like an advertisement, but here are some "expensive" services that make me feel that I'm using their product instead of being their product. The following are some services I'm proud to pay their amount for. https://www.fastmail.com/ for email https://vimeo.com/ for 4K HD video uploads https://www.backblaze.com/ for backup https://www.rackspace.com/cloud/files for sharing files and photos to peo…
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on “Alternatives to Google Products”Submitted Memos: stick private notes on your email as a story · 102 points
HN discussionI don't think this pricing is active per https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/member.html I signed up and I only see the same plans as on the pricing page
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on “Alternatives to Google Products”Submitted Introducing passkey support to Fastmail as a story · 82 points
HN discussion> Is there a way to keep my.name@gmail.com but moving to another provider? Yes and no. GMail does support IMAP access (Go here to enable it: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/fwdandpop ). IMAP is a standard that allows you to access an inbox remotely. OTOH, as long as you are using @gmail.com in your address, you are at their mercy. Go to https://www.gandi.net and purchase a domain name, it'll cost you <$10…
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on “AMP for email is a terrible idea”Submitted Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem as a story · 33 points
HN discussionhttps://www.fastmail.com
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on “AMP for email is a terrible idea”Submitted Fastmail: Staff access to your data as a story · 32 points
HN discussionPoor frogs. The water temp just got upped a couple of degrees. Too late to jump out or not just yet? Some relief for frogs that make it out of the pot: https://mailinabox.email/ https://redmail.com/ https://protonmail.com/ https://www.fastmail.com/
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on “AMP for email is a terrible idea”Submitted Work Offline with Fastmail as a story · 31 points
HN discussionGMail filtering isn't very powerful. Although I run my own mail server, there are other good providers out there which allow you to use sieve based filtering. Fastmail for example: https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/sieve.html
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on “Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch”Submitted Fastmail service completely offline for the first time in years as a story · 16 points
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