FastMail is one of the most flexible and powerful email services. Make sure you're making the best use of its many features with these FastMail tips, tricks and secrets.
Protection from so-called "web bugs" (remote images that can track your opening an email) is good, but do you have to click every time you open your favorite newsletter just to see the images in it?
No mouse click will ever be as fast as you, your keyboard and FastMail are creating a new email.
If you have a message from somebody in your FastMail "Inbox", composing a message to its sender is easy.
Signatures are the perfect finishing touch of every email. In FastMail, you can create multiple signatures -- one for each occasion.
With FastMail, you can create properly formatted emails (> quotation characters in all the right places, lines perfectly wrapped, and more) easily. Here's how.
Get rid of nasty emails once for all and all at once. Here's how to delete messages permanently and easily in FastMail instead of moving them to the Trash folder.
Discover unread messages in even the most remote corner or any other FastMail folder with this saved search.
Prevent FastMail from applying its formatting magic to lines you want to keep intact (like poems for example).
If you're not content with moving messages using the mouse in FastMail, a few strokes on the keyboard can do the same job quickly, too.
Looking for a fresh, well, look? FastMail comes with many an alternative style sheet that renders your email experience with different font styles and colors. (You can even set up your own CSS rules.)
If your FastMail Inbox threatens to burst and you can't find anything in it, it's time to create new folders for an organized approach to email.
Simple keyword search or clever combinations of operators: with FastMail search, you can find any email — fast.
Look good without adding any formatting to your emails. In FastMail, sending plain text messages is easy, and they'll be formatted just right without your intervention, too.
Who doesn't like shortcuts? Here's how to operate FastMail, well, fast from the keyboard.
If you want to know what path an email took or what its HTML source looks like, here's how to take a raw look at email messages in FastMail.
FastMail can display emails in a way perfect for printing them (without any unnecessary links or buttons, but with essential header info).
Don't allow spammers to display unwanted images on your screen and prevent senders from finding out that (and when) you opened their messages by not downloading remote images automatically in FastMail.
Don't let FastMail spoil the surprise of a new email. Here's how to prevent FastMail from previewing a few lines of the emails before you have opened them.
Make writing emails a rich experience by default in FastMail. Here's how to start all your messages in HTML composition mode automatically.
Make sure nobody can access your email account as or after you access it from a public terminal (at an internet café, university or library, for example).
If you want to know what path an email took or what its HTML source looks like, here's how to take a raw look at email messages in FastMail.
Protect all mail from a domain from being caught by FastMail's spam filter.
Use your favorite fonts, set the colors in your emails, include pictures and replies in their original layout... Using HTML formatting in FastMail is easy, flexible and fun.
