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9 Oct 2024, 12:43 PM | #1 |
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Fastmail SMS
Is the fastmail sms service still in use.
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10 Oct 2024, 01:20 AM | #2 |
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What do you mean by "Fastmail SMS service"?
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10 Oct 2024, 02:28 PM | #3 |
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Some years ago, it was possible via sieve scripts to send SMS notifications. It was necessary to buy SMS credits if you wanted to use this feature. The capability appears to be gone, and I have a vague recollection of the announcement.
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10 Oct 2024, 03:29 PM | #4 | ||
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In June of 2011, Fastmail enabled sending SMS messages to phones in the US via Sieve or directly from the Compose screen. You needed to buy SMS credits before using this features. I think it worked for some non-US phones before that time. As you can see below, this changed a few years later.
From a user notice sent out April 3, 2014: Quote:
Two years later, Fastmail ended their SMS login-related features. Here is the notice sent on July 22, 2016: Quote:
Bill |
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10 Oct 2024, 10:54 PM | #5 |
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It sure was a bit of a gloomy day for me when the OTP login feature became non existent. Sure, probably with an https login page it wasn't really needed anyway, but I found it 'neat' in a James Bond kinda way.. I have an OTP add-on extension in my Squirrelmail installation.
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10 Oct 2024, 11:57 PM | #6 | |
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SMS sending has become massively more regulated in the past ten years, making things like this expensive, time consuming, and basically impractical to maintain. |
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14 Oct 2024, 08:07 PM | #7 |
The "e" in e-mail
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Would be excellent for 2FA
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15 Oct 2024, 07:01 AM | #8 |
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Fastmail still allows use of SMS for backup 2FA, but passkeys or TOTP authentication are preferred. See:
https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/a...rification-2FA Bill |
15 Oct 2024, 07:33 PM | #9 |
The "e" in e-mail
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Thanks Bill
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2 Nov 2024, 12:05 PM | #10 |
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Some mobile carriers offer an email-to-SMS gateway (perhaps unadvertised), such that incoming emails get parsed and shrunk and sent to your mobile phone as SMS/txt/MMS. For USA AT&T customers, as an example, their addresses would be in the format: 5551234567@mms.att.net or ...@txt.att.net . More info here. Perhaps this may help some FM customers get SMS alerts of 1 kind or another.
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6 Nov 2024, 10:08 PM | #11 |
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I?ve been using it for a while and find it super convenient. I love how it helps me keep my number private, especially when signing up for new services or apps.
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