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The Quick List allows you to quickly address an email to a number of often used addresses. When the Quick List is displayed, simply double click the address to move it to the To field, or use the '<<' buttons to move an address to the apprioriate To/Cc/Bcc field.
You can hide the quick list at any time by clicking the [ X ] link to the top left of the Quick List area. You can show it again by clicking the 'Show Quick List' link that appears when it is hidden.
On the Options screen, select the Account Preferences link. Use the Quick Items section to change the number of displayed items in the Quick List.
Addresses are added to the Quick List in two ways:
Addresses marked as 'In Quick List', are always shown first, and are always sorted by nick name, or if empty, full name, or if empty, email address. After that, other email addresses are shown, ordered by their weight.
Once an address is added automatically by sending to it, it cannot be explicitly removed. You can clear the entire list by going to the Options screen, and selecting the Account Preferences link and clicking the 'Clear' button in the Quick Items section.
Also, as you send to other addresses, any address you used only once or infrequently will automatically fall off the bottom of the list.
This button will take you to a separate screen where you can edit the To/Cc/Bcc address lists by selecting email addresses from your address book.
Select the address book entries, or the individual email addresses you want to add, then click "To selected", "Cc selected" or "Bcc selected" as appropriate.
You can enter email addresses in the 'To', 'Cc' and 'Bcc' address fields in 4 main ways
When you click the 'Check Names' button, the following occurs.
Here is an example of how this expanding and matching occurs. If you have the following address book:
| Nickname | Full name | Email address |
| andrew | Andrew Smith | asmith@somehost.com |
| anthony | Anthony Smith | anthony@anywhere.com |
| bill | Bill Smith | bill@fastmail.fm |
| smith | Bill Manheim | bm@elsewhere.com |
Then entering the following lines will be expanded as shown:
| Line | Result | Reason |
| smith | "Bill Manheim" <bm@elsewhere.com> | Matches nickname 'smith' exactly. Ignores full names |
| b smith | "Bill Smith" <bill@fastmail.fm> | Matches full name 'Bill Smith' unambiguously |
| andrew | "Andrew Smith" <asmith@somehost.com> | Matches nickname 'andrew' exactly. Ignores full names |
| bi m | "Bill Manheim" <bm@elsewhere.com> | Matches full name 'Bill Manheim' unambiguously |
| a smith | ambiguous, matches two names, you'll be asked to decide which one you meant | Matches full names 'Andrew Smith' and 'Anthony Smith' |
| and s, bill | "Andrew Smith" <asmith@somehost.com>, "Bill Smith" <bill@fastmail.fm> | Maches full name 'Andrew Smith' unambiguously, as well as nickname 'bill' exactly |
| bm@elsewhere.com | "Bill Manheim" <bm@elsewhere.com> | Email address matches for entry for 'Bill Manheim'. Expands to include known full name |
This is a very powerful way to address email messages, without having to remember peoples email addresses, or having to go to another screen to select addresses from a list.
This closes the current message and saves a copy in your 'Drafts' folder. Clicking the subject of the message in the Drafts folder will open it back up in the Compose window so you can complete it later.
Automatically fixes up all kinds of formatting, for instance changing...
to> stuff which looks like > this
as well as fixing> stuff which looks like this
so that they look like:- bulleted lists which wrap onto other lines and are not aligned because they are too long - and numbered lists, quotes and aligned sections too! PS: It even fixes up things like 'PS' lines so that they wrap at 72 columns and align correctly!
- bulleted lists which wrap onto other lines and are not aligned
because they are too long
- and numbered lists, quotes and aligned sections too!
PS: It even fixes up things like 'PS' lines so that they wrap at
72 columns and align correctly!
If you have lines that you don't want to format, precede them with a '# '.
The Spell Check button brings up the spell checker, which is a separate screen containing its own instructions. Only English is supported at this stage, and there is no user-defined dictionary capability as yet.
If this option is checked, and some email addresses used in this message don't appear in your address book, you will be taken to another screen where you can quickly add those addresses to your address book for use in the future.
You can configure multiple personalities that change the From address your recipient sees on the message. Use the Personalities link on the Options screen to create these. When you select a personality, this will also change the signature attached to your message, and the folder the sent email is saved to, if you leave the Signature popup and Save Copy popup as '-Personality'.
If the Personality has a (b) listed next to it in the popup, this is a reminder to you that the personality has one or more BCC addresses associated with it. A copy of the message will also be sent to these addresses if you use this personality.
If you want you use a From address not listed in the popup and don't want to create a new personality, you can click the 'Change' button to enter a completely custom From address in a text box. If you want to go back to using a personality, you can click the 'Personality' button. Note that when you do this, the Save Copy and Signature popup menus will be reset to the '-Personality' setting.
You can configure FastMail.FM with multiple signatures that can be appended to emails you send. You can select the signature that will be appended to the email you are composing from this popup menu. If you choose '-Personality' the signature selected for this Personality is chosen automatically when the message is sent. '-Default' will select the signature you chose to be default on the Signatures screen.
You can configure FastMail.FM to use different folders to store copies of outgoing messages instead of the default "Sent Items" using this popup menu. If you chose '-Personality', the Sent Items selected for this Personality is chosen automatically when the message is sent. Selecting '-None' will not save a copy of the message. (NOTE: check the default value for each personality. If it's "None", and you want your Sent Items saved, then select a folder.)
In the description below, assume that your default personality for the folder containing the original message is default@domain, and you have another personality other@otherdomain. The following addresses are tried in the order given below:
The first match from the above list becomes the From address of the reply.
For addresses of the form folder@somepersonality.domain, a 'custom' From address is used, but the 'Save copy' and 'Signature' fields are set from the corresponding personality.
This allows you to insert pages from your Notepad which you have marked with the 'Is quick note' checkbox. See this FAQ entry
You can add up to three attachments to the message being composed without having to go into the 'Attach Many' screen. If you need to add more than 3 attachments, you can click the 'Attach Many' button which will take you to another screen which allows you to add as many attachments as you want.
If you only want to add 3 or less attachments, you do not need to click any other buttons to explicitly attach the files. You just need to select the attachments, and click Send when you are ready.
You can add files from your File Storage area to your messages as attachments. Click on the 'File Space' button, which will take you to the File Storage screen. Here you can select the checkbox(es) of the files you want to attach, and click the 'Attach' button. The selected files will appear in an attachment list at the top of the screen. You can add as many attachments as you like (up to a maximum of 7M). When you are finished adding attachments, click on the 'Done' button to return to the Compose screen.
Click here to learn more about File Storage.
You must give the address group a nickname when you create it on the Addresses screen. To use the address group, enter the group nickname on the To, Cc or Bcc line. Click the 'Check Names' button to expand the address group.
This will take you to another screen which allows you to add as many attachments as you want to the email message being composed.
This menu allows you to select an action to perform on the current message. Use the 'Do Action' button to actually perform the action. The currently available actions are:
No. You can specify a custom one-off "From" address by clicking the 'Change' button on the 'From' line.
The 'Save Draft' button allows you to save a temporary version of your email. This allows you to continue working on it later. Drafts are stored in the 'Drafts' folder. To create a new draft simply compose a message as you would normally, and instead of sending click the 'Save Draft' button.
To continue working on a draft you created earlier go to your Draft folder and simply click on the mail. The Compose screen will open and you can continue editing your message. If you choose to Cancel composing the message the original draft is unchanged. If you choose 'Save Draft' again the original will be deleted and replaced with the current version. If you choose to send this mail on it's way the Draft is deleted from the Drafts folder.
FastMail.FM also offers a way to create Template mails that can help you if you regularly send out the same type of mail. You can have any number of template mails, they behave like drafts, except for the fact that they do not get deleted when sending out your mail.
To create templates you'll need to create a folder called Templates (make sure you type it in exactly like that, including the capital T). Go to Options - Folders to do this. Now when saving a draft that you want to use as a template go to your Drafts folder and move the draft over to the Templates folder.
To send out a template, simply go to your Templates folder and click on the subject. The compose screen will now open, just as it does with Drafts. When clicking Send the original template is kept.
Here's a summary of the problem: The Euro symbol is new and there are several different ways it can be represented. As usual, there's the Microsoft Way, and then there are the proper ways. If you're interested in the technical details, see this link for some of the gory details.
Basically, the official way is to use the ISO-8859-15 character set. You can set this as your default character set on the Preferences screen. Then any emails you send will use that character set by default.
The Microsoft way hacks ISO-8859-1 to include a 0x80 character. Officially, this modified character set is called CP1252. Unfortunately most things that don't specify a character set assume ISO-8859-1, but Microsoft tends to assume CP1252. So basically you can send something incorrectly as ISO-8859-1, but it will generally display correctly on Microsoft programs.
If this all sounds confusing, that's because it is. If anyone has any good experience and solutions for this, we'd appreciate hearing from you.
You can include tables, colors, and so forth in your emails if you use HTML mode. To switch to this mode, simply click "Edit as Html" on the Compose screen. After a few seconds, you will see buttons appear for adding formatting to your email (as long as you are using a recent version of Internet Explorer, Netscape, or Firefox). If you always want to send email in this mode, click Options, then Account Preferences, and set Default compose mode to "HTML".
The 'Preview' button on the compose screen takes you to a screen where you can see the body of your message rendered in a browser window. This is useful if you have edited your HTML by hand. It can also be helpful if you just want to see what your message will look like using your current stylesheet.
The 'Preview' button is not visible when editing a message in Text mode; it is only displayed when you are editing an HTML message.
In Mozilla, Netscape and Firefox, scripts are not allowed to access the clipboard by default to stop malicious sites from stealing your data. To enable the cut/copy/paste buttons in the HTML compose screen follow these steps (please note this only allows FastMail.FM to access the clipboard so your security is not compromised):
Advanced users: If you already have a user.js file in your profile folder, simply download the file above, open it in a text editor and append the contents to your current user.js
How to find your profile folder:
On Windows XP/2000:
On Windows 95/98/Me:
On Linux:
On MacOS X: