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Interview With Jeremy Howard of FastMail.fm

Posted by kdawson on from the doing-one-thing-well dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Oh lawd by wizardforce · · Score: 0, Troll

    whoosh

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    Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
  2. Re:Nice try. by Bazman · · Score: 0, Troll

    I reckon the 10MB free account is mainly to give people a chance to check out the system and see if it's worth paying for more. I just got myself one, looked at the webmail client, thought 'this is a web 1.0 non-ajaxy non dragNdrop piece of donkey genitalia' and went back to gmail. Anyone know what it is?

    I guess most slashdot leet haxxors will be using IMAP clients on their Macs, so only see the webmail interface as an emergency fallback when their Macs and iPhones have HCF'd.

    The 'fm' extension is clearly a repetition of 'FastMail'. They do have a whole load of other domains you can generate accounts on too - fastmail.various-other-tlds, and a bunch of other related names I forget now.