Comment by rasmusei

10 years ago

+1 on almost everything you wrote. I also moved from Gmail to Fastmail in almost exactly the same way some months ago. I agree completely to the plusses and minuses you mention.

I would like to add one minus though. Any good old smiley like ":)" in emails gets replaced by a yellow smiley face icon. I hate to see yellow smiley faces where someone wrote colon end parenthesis. It's all done client-side though, so noone else has to see it. Have been in contact with FM tech support and they seem to be uninterested in adding a checkbox to turn this nuisance off. Otherwise an excellent, excellent service.

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aibara  10 years ago

I had a problem with the smileys as well. They don't actually appear by default, but if you view your email in plain text and not HTML (as I do) there they are.

I made this for Stylish to fix the issue: https://userstyles.org/styles/106482/fastmail-hide-smileys/

  • rasmusei  10 years ago

    Thanks! Stylish style installed and seems to work. But it's still bewildering why Fastmail does that. Anyway, I must say it's impressive that they make an email service where this is my biggest complaint :)

warp  10 years ago

This doesn't happen for me, so I assumed there must be a setting to turn that off. But looking through the FastMail settings I cannot find anything like that. Still, I don't see any yellow smiley face icons in FastMail when I send or receive ":)" in emails.

tomaskafka  10 years ago

> they seem to be uninterested in adding a checkbox to turn this nuisance off.

Thanks. Filed FastMail under 'opinionated a*oles, won't budge.' No need be their customer.

Also, their 'u'/'r' shortcuts don't work, and if this is their approach to fixing perceived problems ...

  • lorenzhs  10 years ago

    The shortcuts are .u and .r (note the dot). Hover over the "Mark" button to see it. Maybe they don't communicate the shortcuts in the best way but your post is overly inflammatory. This kind of language has no place on HN.