Opera Software acquires email service provider FastMail.Fm

Opera Software acquires email service provider FastMail.Fm

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2010/04/30/fastmail-fm-has-been-acquired-by-opera-software/

http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2010/04/30/

see also: http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=59311

I cant wait to see dhendrycks[at]omail[dot]com (Assuming there will be some change up)

So, finally the old operamail.com with 3Mb space will evolve to something more reasonable? I remember when I had an operamail address, in the late '90s. It offered 10Mb (not too bad in a pre-gmail era) and pop access. It was however so unreliable that they changed hosting to Oublaze, getting only 3Mb and no pop access (in the free service). I gave up my operamail address. But if something more modern comes out, it would be nice to resurrect that old address

I have used FastMail for 8 years now. It's a great service. This is a great purchase by Opera.

Will there be some changes to follow?

So I already use Opera and Fastmail... I wonder if there'll be any advantage now that they're united. Ironically fastmail is the e-mail provider I happened to setup Opera with. In any case the fastmail pages better render perfectly from now on when using Opera! <evil grin>

Oh,see! You just jinxed the whole thing!

I've been using Opera since version 3 including a paid version. I have many free email accounts and Operamail is by far the worst. I have one free FastMail account and one FM account that is top-level paid. Fastmail is fantastic and has great service. It is a pity to see it being taken over but Opera is one company that just might be a good fit. Please don;t dumb down Fastmail. Its users are very supportive of the company's product and people. They are (many of them) apprehensive of FM's future under Opera. I too hate to see an old friend go, but I am at least hopeful that Opera will not ruin this great chance to build on FM's terrific foundations. Best wishes to us all.

Yey! Let me know when I should update my signature

If you're a free operamail.com user like me, you might get an upgrade from their 3MB to a wapping 10MB FastMail free account.

I will imagine that at some point I'll be able to merge the free operamail.com account to my payed FastMail one, right??

How about FastMail.com instead of Fastmail.fm?

Ack! I like the .fm extension. I find it memorable.

Fastmail is a great service.

No change of name is neccessary IMHO as FM offers a large number of domains from which users can choose, and in addition users can have a large number of aliases.

Although I have a FM account its name is NEVER used, I rely on aliases. If an alias attracted spam then I would simply delet it.

That's the theory, but in practice I get virtually no spam, and have never had to delete an alias.

I also use aliases for other purposes, one for work, one for local residents' association, one for family etc...

Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

How about FastMail.com instead of Fastmail.fm?

Assuming that fastmail.fm stays as-is and an Opera-branded version goes on some other domain, are you against that domain being operamail.com? If so, why? Too many bad memories?

I think having it at operamail.com should be fine. However, I recognized that people have probably heard bad things about operamail.com and may not try it at all unless they're told that it's totally new and awesome.

Opera's Fastmail.fm[/i] [/b] FM - No static at all!



how come [ B] tag or [ I ] tag doesn't work in Opera Mobile?

I don't really care what they call it but I would be reluctant to use it unless O comes up with a utility that allows Windows users to set it as being the default mail service in Windows, similar to how Yahoo users (who have installed Yahoo Toolbar) can set Yahoo Mail as their default Windows Mail program. Don't know enough about the Mac to know if that is necessary for that system or not.

And if Opera is planning to upgrade Fastmail I would definitely look at it if they made it display messages with their history in the same way GMail does.

Originally posted by AlaskaHome1959:

I don't really care what they call it but I would be reluctant to use it unless O comes up with a utility that allows Windows users to set it as being the default mail service in Windows, similar to how Yahoo users (who have installed Yahoo Toolbar) can set Yahoo Mail as their default Windows Mail program.

It's easy to add a new handler in Windows. It's just some simple registry keys. As for the actual handler program that gets called and converts the mailto URI to an http compose URI that fastmail accepts, that's not hard to do either, so I don't see this as a problem. If Opera doesn't make one when it come time, I'll make one. But, Opera already has code written (that's used by webmailproviders.ini) that does all the conversion, so I don't see them having a problem writing a little app to do this.

Originally posted by burnout426:

It's easy to add a new handler in Windows. It's just some simple registry keys. As for the actual handler program that gets called and converts the mailto URI to an http compose URI that fastmail accepts, that's not hard to do either, so I don't see this as a problem. If Opera doesn't make one when it come time, I'll make one. But, Opera already has code written (that's used by webmailproviders.ini) that does all the conversion, so I don't see them having a problem writing a little app to do this.

Ah, Mr. Data. The conductor thanks you for the shortcut to New Vertiform City. I had forgotten about the code in webmailproviders.ini. Thank you.

Originally posted by AlaskaHome1959:

Ah, Mr. Data. The conductor thanks you for the shortcut to New Vertiform City. I had forgotten about the code in webmailproviders.ini. Thank you.

I'll make a fastmail.fm handler as an example sometime soon.

Originally posted by AlaskaHome1959:

I don't really care what they call it but I would be reluctant to use it unless O comes up with a utility that allows Windows users to set it as being the default mail service in Windows, similar to how Yahoo users (who have installed Yahoo Toolbar) can set Yahoo Mail as their default Windows Mail program.

A rough Fastmail example (for Windows). There's a whole explanation in there. But, it's basically: Import the reg file, place the 2 files where it says, set Fastmail as your default mail client for windows and set browsers to open mailto in the default mail client. The reg file is the key. The rest is just implementation stuff.

With that said, I'm sure Opera could make something when it comes time.

Any updates?

Since Opera acquired Fastmail, there's been some major bug fixing, hardware upgrades and new quotas etc.:

http://blog.fastmail.fm/
http://blog.fastmail.fm/2010/07/27/new-popimap-server-version/
http://blog.fastmail.fm/2010/05/30/quota-increase-for-all-accounts/
http://blog.fastmail.fm/2010/08/22/new-extra-quota-pricing/
http://blog.fastmail.fm/2010/05/24/mailbox-shows-folder-purgespam-learning-properties/

Those are of course welcome changes though I am waiting something more as hopes have been raised in this faq: Fastmail.fm Faq
e.g A still bigger quota (25mb is still too less), integration with other my opera services etc., in short all that you people are also waiting for!

One additional need for FastMail/OperaMail: Smartphone compatibility. Gotta be able to set it up to send mail to my Blackberry (insert your favorite mobile phone here) just like I can with GMail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, et ceter.

It seems my post about FastMail got edited. Hmmm. Did I offend?

I have used FastMail

Originally posted by AlaskaHome1959:

It seems my post about FastMail got edited. Hmmm. Did I offend?

If it had been edited, it would have said "edited" in bold letters.

great service