FastMail.FM
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Type of site
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Webmail, , |
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| Available in | 36 languages |
| Owner | FastMail Pty Ltd |
| Website | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | 1999 |
| Current status | Online |
FastMail is an email service offering paid email accounts for individuals and organizations. It is provided in 36 languages to customers worldwide by FastMail Pty Ltd, a company located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The company was acquired by Opera Software in 2010. On September 26, 2013, FastMail announced that it had split from Opera and became a privately held independent company. Its main servers are located in New York City and Amsterdam; a previous backup location in Iceland is being replaced by the server location in Amsterdam.
Fastmail was founded by Bruce Davey and Jeremy Howard, to provide email service for customers of the Optimal Decisions Group.
The provider's sole product line is email services (and included accessories), but it was owned by Opera Software, (known best for its web browser) from 2010 to 2013. Following a staff buyout, the company is now fully independent again.
On October 18, 2012 it was announced that new signups for the free service level had been discontinued. Existing free FastMail accounts would not be discontinued, but if a free account was deactivated because it was not logged into in over 120 days, it would not be reactivated. The company stated that they had decided to focus FastMail as a "premium brand" with only paid accounts.
On October 23, 2014, FastMail moved their primary domain from fastmail.fm to fastmail.com.
All existing guest and "one-time payment" member email accounts are expected to be discontinued from July 31, 2017 as Fastmail transitions into a subscription-only email service. Existing users are given the option to subscribe to FastMail with a discount or to request a refund of their one-time payment.
FastMail offers 113 domains which users can choose from, while also allowing customers to use their own domain. Users are also able to create calendars and notes in the web mail environment and sync them over the and CalDav protocol.
The site developers are among active contributors to the widely used Cyrus IMAP open source software project and include the lead developer and maintainer of Perl module Mail::IMAPTalk. They are actively developing JMAP - a new open email protocol.
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