Interview With Jeremy Howard of FastMail.fm

Siker writes "In a world of giants such as Gmail and Rackspace, email service provider FastMail.fm is somehow doing great, with signups above the million mark and reliability above four 9s. Email Service Guide interviews Jeremy Howard, founder of FastMail.fm, to find out how. Also covered are the company's contributions to Open Source software such as Cyrus-IMAP and Thunderbird. Jeremy discusses the future of IMAP, how open protocols help FastMail.fm, and why he thinks SLAs from email providers are a con."

Comments

I don't know what you're talking about

[Anonymous Coward]

FastMail.fm is a great service, and if you've ever tried FastMail.fm you'd know this. In fact, FastMail.fm is so great that I was very excited to see a FastMail.fm story here on Slashdot. And the man behind FastMail.fm? That's FastMail.fm-tastic.

If you don't like it, you can go FastMail.fm yourself, you FastMail.fm-er.

Four 9s

[Dyinobal]

How long will they have their four 9s reliability now that they've been slashvertised?

I saw the problem when I saw the name kdawson.

[Anonymous Coward]

kdawson consistently publishes pointless or stupid OPs. Whenever I see the name kdawson I know that there will be a problem. Whether kdawson lets through a spelling error, or kdawson puts forward slashvertising, or even whether kdawson makes an egregious logical error in editorializing, I always know what to expect when I see the name kdawson.

Re:I saw the problem when I saw the name kdawson.

[mazarin5]

1a. Help & Preferences -> Dynamic Index -> Exclusions: Put a check next to "kdawson"
or
1b. Help & Preferences -> Classic Index -> Authors: Uncheck "kdawson"
2. ????
3. Stop crying yourself to sleep every night there is a kdawson story

Re:Oh lawd

[roguetrick]

Of course we didn't read the article, what do you take us for!

Re:try it!

[Frosty Piss]

FastMail.FM operates under Australian law, not US law (although the servers are in the US, they are owned by an Australian company).

The servers are here in the US? I feel safe in speculating that if *you* will not pony up the emails to a US judge, the people who maintain the server farm *here in the US* will. US judges generally couldn't care less about how they do it in whatever country, and, as you said, the servers are here in the US...