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Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by tspike » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:40 PM UTC

I'm in the western US. I noticed it for a few minutes and assumed it was my internet connection. Love these guys.

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by dividuum » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:40 PM UTC

jamescun wrote: post #8

Haven't noticed any issues (London), but I do appreciate the attention FastMail give to their uptime and outages, given they handle something as critical as email.

Saw a brief 503 once. Was back after 5 minutes.

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by hs86 » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:45 PM UTC

Just this week, I uninstalled all my desktop mail clients: no more Thunderbird, MailMate, or eM Client.

Fastmail's web app feels faster, uses fewer resources, and has the same UI on all of my computers.

Instead of redirecting all other accounts into Fastmail, it has a simple UI to setup fetching-from and sending-as from other mail providers, and with using my own domain, it does not feel like a lock-in.

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by burnthrow » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:46 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #2

Haven't noticed yet. I want to say most Fastmail incidents come and go without me noticing, apart from their tweets about them.

My experience was that Fastmail has regular hiccups, they just don't make the news. I left for Google Apps years ago mostly for that reason.

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by andrewnicolalde » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:46 PM UTC

Curious, I thought I'd noticed issues this morning at around 6 AM CST, I wonder if it has something to do with that. Hopefully this doesn't result in any dropped emails that arrive at Fastmail during this outage..

edit: Looks like no mail has been lost.

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by neither_color » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:46 PM UTC

Love fastmail. 500 aliases means a unique email login for every single online account. Hope they fix this soon.

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by leepowers » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:48 PM UTC

Noticed no problems today, west coast, I have their web mail interface always running in an open tab

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by mercurywells » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:49 PM UTC

andrewnicolalde wrote: post #15

Curious, I thought I'd noticed issues this morning at around 6 AM CST, I wonder if it has something to do with that. Hopefully this doesn't result in any dropped emails that arrive at Fastmail during this outage.. edit: Looks like no mail has been lost.

I've had emails throughout the day, eastern time: 3am, 5am, 6am, 8am, 9:30am, 11am, 11:30am, 12:50pm, 3:15pm

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by vorpalhex » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:50 PM UTC

hs86 wrote: post #13

Just this week, I uninstalled all my desktop mail clients: no more Thunderbird, MailMate, or eM Client. Fastmail's web app feels faster, uses fewer resources, and has the same UI on all of my computers. Instead of redirecting all other accounts into Fastmail, it has a simple UI to setup fetching-from and sending-as from other mail providers, and with using my own domain, it does not feel like a lock-in.

Aren't you concerned about getting locked out of an email account and not having a local backup? Or even Fastmail having a serious issue and losing data?

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by _joel » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:51 PM UTC

All working fine here