|
FastMail Forum All posts relating to FastMail.FM should go here: suggestions, comments, requests for help, complaints, technical issues etc. |
|
Thread Tools |
12 Jun 2020, 10:57 PM | #16 | |
Master of the @
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: West Sussex, UK
Posts: 1,334
|
Quote:
|
|
11 Jul 2020, 09:11 AM | #17 |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 270
|
|
11 Jul 2020, 05:05 PM | #18 | ||
Master of the @
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: West Sussex, UK
Posts: 1,334
|
Quote:
Still the same issue. I tried using the web inteface in both Chrome and Edge. The subdomain.domain.tld part is not directly editable - instead if I click on that field it gets pushed to the right and opens up an empty field allowing me to add anything. So effectively I get a nested subdomain in the form of localpart@subdomain.subdomain.domain.tld Interestingly when I reply using a dedicated Fastmail app (Android in my case) I can edit the subdomain part but when I 'send' I get a pop up with following: Quote:
|
||
4 Feb 2021, 04:48 AM | #19 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 172
|
Quote:
|
|
4 Feb 2021, 10:05 AM | #20 | |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: May 2018
Posts: 478
|
Quote:
|
|
7 Feb 2021, 10:24 AM | #21 |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 270
|
You can guard against inadvertently revealing your main personal FM address by setting the default sending identity to be something you have never used, but which is different from your main FM address: If you inadvertently send from that address it's no big deal, you can just change the default to something else.
|
7 Feb 2021, 01:25 PM | #22 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 172
|
Thanks @xyzzy and @grhm for your replies. Probably I wasn't very clear in my earlier post. My work email is outside of fastmail (a university), so when I accidentally compose a work email with my personal domain as sender, it gets confusing for the recipient who now has two email addresses for me.
What I wish is that I could always be prompted (when composing a new email) for what my sending address should be, i.e. a tech solution for a human problem |
7 Feb 2021, 04:12 PM | #23 |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 270
|
I don't know any way of getting it to force you to select a sending identity, but I suggest you set the 'nickname'* of your default identity to something that will jump out at you, such as "⚠️💥❌❎CHANGE THIS!!❎❌💥⚠️"
(Since I did that, I've not made that mistake...) * To set the 'nickname' go to Settings > Customise > Sending identities > [Name of identity] > Show advanced preferences > Nickname Last edited by Grhm : 7 Feb 2021 at 05:13 PM. Reason: Instructions to set 'nickname' |
9 Feb 2021, 04:13 AM | #24 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 172
|
Ha! Good idea...
Quote:
|
|
9 Feb 2021, 10:02 PM | #25 | |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Scotland
Posts: 492
|
Quote:
I've got the nickname for my default id set to, simply, "Jeremy Nicoll - SAFE DEFAULT SENDING ID" which is almost enough to catch my eye reliably. But I see no way, in Settings (etc), to introduce colour to that, which would help a lot. Is it possible, or was your use of colour above just for the benefit of this forum? |
|
9 Feb 2021, 10:12 PM | #26 |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 270
|
Yes, they're emoji characters.
Try copying them from here and pasting them into the 'nickname' field. |
10 Feb 2021, 01:01 AM | #27 |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Scotland
Posts: 492
|
|
10 Feb 2021, 02:10 AM | #28 |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 270
|
Possibly the first ever genuinely useful application of emojis!
|
10 Feb 2021, 07:18 AM | #29 |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Scotland
Posts: 492
|
Well... I've a thing about birds (of the feathered variety), and - elsewhere - quite a lot of my messages, especially if they posit something from a birdie point of view, will have a penguin or duck or two in them.
On Beakbook (as some of my feathered friends call it) if one types < then ( then " then ) in a message - which looks a bit like a bird's head in profile, it automatically becomes a penguin... |
21 May 2021, 08:58 AM | #30 | |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 270
|
Quote:
In this case, the emojis actually perform a useful function by drawing the eye. I mistakenly sent another message from my default identity earlier today, so I've changed the nickname again to try to increase its eyecatchiness. After a bit of messing about I've come up with this: 🟥🟧🟥🇨🇭🇦🇳🇬🇪🟧🟥🟧🇹🇭🇮🇸🟥🟧🟥 Can anyone improve on that? |
|