nmjenkins
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Comment · 2 months ago
Sure, if you really want to, you connect whatever AI you like: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/an-mcp-server-for-fastmail/ – but there's no LLM built in to Fastmail itself; it's a personal choice.
Comment · 4 months ago
(I work for Fastmail). That sounds odd – have you contacted our support team so we can look into it? https://www.fastmail.com/support/
Comment · 4 months ago
Offline support was added in August last year: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-works-offline/
Comment · 5 months ago
Fastmail’s been around since 1999. (That’s 5 years older than Gmail…). It’s profitable and employee owned, not VC funded.
The senior staff have all been working on it for over 15 years. Anything can happen of course, but you’ll be hard pressed to find a tech company with more apparent longevity.
(Source: I am one of those senior staff)
Comment · 5 months ago
(Chief Product Officer at Fastmail here.)
> every email ended up in spam. This included emails from myself, others from my own gmail, and even replies from people I'd emailed first.
It should go without saying, but that's definitely not the common (or expected!) experience. Our support team would be very happy to look into it for you: https://www.fastmail.com/support/
Normally when people see this kind of behaviour, it's because of one of the following: * They've connected an IMAP client that has its own spam filter turned on, and it's actually this moving all the messages to Spam, not Fastmail's spam filter. * They've accidentally mis-trained their personal filter by reporting email they want as spam.
Having said that, of course we can have issues on our end too — that's why we have a real human support team with the power to escalate to the relevant engineers.
Comment · 7 months ago
Fastmail does not run on AWS: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-use-our-own-hardware/
Comment · 1 year ago
No final decision, but possibly not. Given Apple are dropping support for x86 Macs next year, it's unlikely to be something we could support for the long term.
Comment · 1 year ago
The desktop app will automatically pull from Gmail when you refresh the folder/label it fetches into, just like on the web.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm sorry you feel like this, but it absolutely doesn't mean that. I believe we probably devote more engineering resources to open standards development than any other company, with significant resources given to the mailmaint, calext and jmap working groups at the IETF, not to mention the maintenance of the open-source Cyrus IMAP/JMAP server. I don't know why would do that if we were trying to just keep people captive because it's hard to leave. "Your data belongs to you" is one of our core values: https://www.fastmail.com/company/values/
(You can also read more on our open source and standards work at https://www.fastmail.com/company/open-source/)
Comment · 1 year ago
No product plans to announce here at the moment, sorry, but we're aware there are a bunch of people that would like this.
Comment · 1 year ago
The main thing is better integration with the OS. So no browser chrome (even as a PWA, the browser adds buttons or a toolbar over the top of the app), integration with the Mac menu bar, native context menus, the OS semi-transparent background for the frame so it feels like it belongs.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Just to be clear, does this mean the app is mainly reusing the already existing codebase of the web-app?
Yes.
> How much additional work went into the desktop-app?
About 4 months work for 2 developers (but with both of them handling other things that arose during that time too).