For those of you using #fastmail, I've noticed a strange behavior and curious if its a known thing or just a me thing. When I go to the Fastmail login page, 1Password will fill in the password for me. I click Login and every single time I get the wrong password screen. Refresh the page, let 1Password fill it in again and it works.
It's latest Firefox on Mac but seemed to start when I turned on 2FA with Fastmail. Just wondering if anybody else has seen this.
I have a few very small ideas for usability improvements to git. Been idly thinking about whether Wizard Zines could pay a developer to investigate and see if a couple of them are feasible
in theory I could do this myself, but I have never written real C code in my life and I think I'm very unlikely to actually do it
no idea what the probability of actually doing this is (maybe low? hiring developers is expensive!) but it's something I've been thinking about
@phord oh yeah 50% of my problem is that I don't really know how to send plain text email
(I mean, I'm aware of https://useplaintext.email/#Fastmail, it's just that I do not actually want to configure my email client to send all my email in plain text, and reconfiguring my mail client every time I want to send an email to a specific mailing list seems hard)
i'm sure I could figure out a workflow if I spent a few hours on it, it's just a barrier for me :)
Fastmail users: Tip for an annoying limitation with calendar events.
If you click "Add to calendar" on some random site/email and it downloads an .ics file, then drag and drop the file into a browser tab showing the Fastmail webmail interface.
It will pop up a dialog allowing you to add the event to a calendar.
CHECK YOUR MAIL CONFIG:
Settings (gear in top right) > Domains
click "Edit" next to the domain.
There should be a light green banner at the top that says "Your domain is correctly set up to send and receive mail!" Below that you should see rows for MX, DKIM, and SPF which should all say "<foo> is correctly configured."
If those rows aren't ALL correctly configured, you have work to do BEFORE Thursday.
New update in the chapter "Taming the email beast": I decided to cancel the SaneBox trial as it's expensive ($10+/month), and most of its actions can be replicated with the mail rule engine at @fastmail.
The one thing I don't like about @fastmail is that you are limited to 100GB of email storage and there appears to be no way to increase that limit unless I'm missing something somewhere.
While 100GB seems sufficient, I'd really like to have at least 500GB of storage.
On my Gmail account I could purchase extra storage and I had 2TB of storage and was using 54% of that.
I have decided to go with Fastmail as I feel it meets my needs a bit better at this time. I have even decided to go with a paid plan, which is something I thought I'd never do, pay for email!
I've decided to give @fastmail a try and see what it's all about.
While I'm happy with Gmail, I'd like to move away from it for various reasons. The main reason being to have a new email address where I hopefully don't get as much spam. I've had my Gmail account since the first day invites were a thing.
I'd like to try and hide my email address a bit better if at all possible.
I'm currently testing the free version. Not sure if the paid version is for me.
@Codeberg Thanks for favoriting my toot that mentioned you😀 I emailed you a while ago because your registration system didn't like the @fastmail address I used to try to register. It would be great if your system accepted Fastmail email addresses, which are probably not spam because it is not free/gratis to use Fastmail. Thanks! #Codeberg#Fastmail#Email#Spam#Registration
Localisation doesn't mean you pass on the costs but keep charging US-first prices. 🫠
This looks so tone-deaf to me.
Thankfully my current #Fastmail subscription runs through to August next year until when I can re-visit using a different, more affordable email provider.
So, this surveillance capitalism thing is totally out of hand. Today @protonmail had a great explainer (https://mastodon.social/@protonmail/111165171600485248) on the mind bending evil Google is up to with it's new "privacy features". But pretty much every tech company is now in the business of profiling you and monetizing your tidbits.
What can you do? A lot as it turns out, but if you just want ONE EASY THING that you can do today, SWITCH TO FIREFOX (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/) and make DuckDuckGo your default search engine.
I've been using Fastmail on my own domain for years, and my time has been phenomenal from the initial migration to right now. Virtually unlimited email aliases, iOS push support with Mail.app (not very common these days), Bitwarden integration, macOS and iOS profiles to quickly set things up and a bunch more. Not an ad. For people trying to Degoogle, here's my referral link, which will get you 10% off your first year: https://ref.fm/u27772440 #Fastmail#degoogle#gmail
Migration - nerve wracking when I did it, but now looking back they made it easy
Service - all the “multiple addresses from multiple domains in one inbox” requirements works well in the web interface and the iOS app
iOS app - every capability from the web is available on the app, which is wild. I can configure DNS stuff from there, which is maybe too powerful! I wish it proxied images like the native Apple Mail app does so I find myself still using it by default.
Discovered yet more emails we're no longer receiving thanks to G so it looks like I'm going to migrate our email to @fastmail and point my domain there. Just need two accounts with all admin access and billing done by myself. So they seem to fit the bill ( $10 USD for two standard accounts ) and certainly have plenty of good reviews.
Maybe a job for tomorrow. #GoodbyeGoogle#Fastmail
@chris Still dealing w/google email hosting due to so many older ppl in my family having emails on my domain - and my inability to walk them through a damned setup on iPhone to change servers! 🤬 Otherwise I'd be on #fastmail or something. Wish there was an easy way to take control of a remote iPhone/iPad to make changes. Geez...screensharing for iPhone PLEASE!