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Chipper · 1 May 2010, 02:42 AM

FM has a lot of great features. It would be a shame to see some of them go. Can anybody from Opera tell us how this purchase will change our email? What functionality/features will be lost?

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Some of the features I like are:

1) Folders/personalities -- when I'm in FolderA, it uses PersonalityA when I compose a message. FolderB uses PersonalityB, etc.

2) Ordering folders -- my most frequently used folders are at the top.

3) Hiding folders -- I prefer "hidden unless unread" feature for several folders

4) Custom sieve

5) Advance Spam protection:
* I can set the numeric scores at will to specify what I myself consider "Definite" vs "Probably" vs "Possible".
* Also allows me to specify SPAM {99.9} or not.
* I can also control which folder it will go into, etc.

6) All incoming mail is automatically redirected to another email account for archiving

7) Signatures -- each personality can have their own one.

8) Any many others -- there ar lots of other features that are unique to FM.

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Really nice feature: subdomain addressing. I use this to assign a unique email addr when I have to register somewhere:
* Amazon Books = amazon AT myuserid DOT fmdomain DOT tld
* EBay = ebay AT myuserid DOT fmdomain DOT tld
etc, etc

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I'm not as concerned who is going to own it as much as what changes will occur. Can anybody weigh in on this? TIA!

1 May 2010, 02:42 AM	#1
Chipper Master of the @ Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Greenbelt, MD (USA) Posts: 1,278	Will the features/functionality of FastMail change? FM has a lot of great features. It would be a shame to see some of them go. Can anybody from Opera tell us how this purchase will change our email? What functionality/features will be lost? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Some of the features I like are: 1) Folders/personalities -- when I'm in FolderA, it uses PersonalityA when I compose a message. FolderB uses PersonalityB, etc. 2) Ordering folders -- my most frequently used folders are at the top. 3) Hiding folders -- I prefer "hidden unless unread" feature for several folders 4) Custom sieve 5) Advance Spam protection: * I can set the numeric scores at will to specify what I myself consider "Definite" vs "Probably" vs "Possible". * Also allows me to specify SPAM {99.9} or not. * I can also control which folder it will go into, etc. 6) All incoming mail is automatically redirected to another email account for archiving 7) Signatures -- each personality can have their own one. 8) Any many others -- there ar lots of other features that are unique to FM. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Really nice feature: subdomain addressing. I use this to assign a unique email addr when I have to register somewhere: * Amazon Books = amazon AT myuserid DOT fmdomain DOT tld * EBay = ebay AT myuserid DOT fmdomain DOT tld etc, etc - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I'm not as concerned who is going to own it as much as what changes will occur. Can anybody weigh in on this? TIA!