FM's unique offerings -
 

i'm trying to focus on what FM offers that no other webmail provider does - this may be rather restrictive so feel free to contribute items that are RARE (and where else they occur).

i'll set the ball rolling;

• Sieve scripting (Tuffmail)
• On the fly "from address" (Bluebottle)
• File Storage: Server-side zipping/unzipping
• Alias sub-domain addressing: xyz@alias.fastmail.fm
• Direct folder addressing - no filters needed: folder@username.fastmail.fm
• website: http://username.fastmail.fm
• attach notes from notepad to outgoing mail
• Fastcheck: Built specifically for FM: check multiple folders, custom notification...
• Fuzzy match for folder addressing
• File to parent if sub-folder missing

Auto-selection of personality when replying.
Auto-filing of POP links.
Independent forum supported by company founders (Runbox has this too :) )

Very versatile envelope (and custom header) support in Sieve.

Some other providers have a mail rules filter section that only supports To/Cc for recipient checking (thus not 100%). And usually a separate control panel for virtual domain alias forwarding which cannot take advantage of filtering rules (nor antivirus/antispam checking in many cases).

FastMail also has the virtual domain alias control panel (with antivirus checking), but commendably its Sieve filtering doesn't compromise in this area either. So I can happily continue to use the power of Sieve for recipient checking.

I haven't tried Tuffmail so I'm not sure if it is the same way with them?


Ref1, Ref2 (my own recent posts, sorry)

P.S. Some mail rules filtering at other providers already support message body though.

Oh I forgot about the auto-personality when replying, that's a great one :)

This in turn reminds me of the POP access to specific subfolders (which s a already linked to). Very useful (I believe Runbox still supports it too).

As kander had suggested we can even set up POPLinks to POP back into the account to specific folders as a means to do auto-deletion of older messages...

Edit: hadaso also described the possibilities offered by this feature!

 
Redirect to people

one of my favorite features

I really don't know every provider on earth, but one of the main reasons for me choosing FastMail is the support for certain character encodings I use.

Fastmail allows the choice of a default character encoding (from a long list of charsets) that is used for both sending email and displaying received email unless the received message specifies a different encoding.

Also, FastMail allows manual editing of the HTML in HTML mail.

Yahoo! has this as well for addresses made from AddressGuard and POP retrieval, both only available in Y!Mail Plus. While pop retrieval comes free with the standard Y! account, sending mail using the POP address is not.

I only just noticed this feature recently.:)

I know of no other webmail company that allows you to utilize the Autoformat module.

 
HTML composition in Mozilla (Runbox too).

 

• Delete Folder = messages automatically moved to Inbox (i would expect all providers to do this - rather surprising that they don't).
  
• "Infected file rejected" - Notification

Hey! I was going to post that! You beat me to it.

Here's mine: any user can make their own stylesheet, with the potential of having it added to the Fastmail interface for all the world to see and use.

my 200th post
 

Detaching attached mails.

Wow, thats something I'never even used, heard of or even needed. Always amazes me - you meet all kinds of people on the internet.

Re: my 200th post
 

I didn't think this feature was available yet. That is, can I now delete an attachment from an email I want to keep? How do I do it?

Re: Re: my 200th post
 

The detached mail will then be found in the inbox as a separate mail; but the attachment is not deleted.
However, if the the attached mail is all the original mail contains,
one may as well delete the original mail while just keeping the detached attached mail.
Especially if the attached mail is buried in several layers.