Send and Receive Email

Note: These instructions are for using the FastMail.FM web interface. If you prefer to use an email client, you will find general as well as client-specific information in here.

Account login

Before you can send and receive email, you need to login to your account

  1. Go to http://www.fastmail.fm in your web browser.

  2. Log in using your full username (including the domain part) and password from FastMail.FM.

Reading email messages

After you have logged in to your FastMail.FM account you'll see the Mailbox Screen, opened in your Inbox. The Inbox is a folder in your account where incoming mail is stored by default. On the left side of the screen you will see the Folder Tree. The Folder Tree allows you to navigate between folders, expand folders to view subfolders, and store mails in different folders. In the mailbox screen, the name of the folder you are in is displayed in the top-left, above the Folder Tree, and in the browser window's title.

To the right of the folder tree is the Mail Listing. This is a list of all the mails in the current folder, in this case 'Inbox'. There is a lot of information that can be foud here, but the most important information is to the right: Date, From and Subject. These will help you identify the mail. If you just started using your account there should be an email there from the FastMail.FM Webmaster.

To read the mail, click on the subject of the mail. You will then enter the Message screen. The two most important parts of the Message screen are the message itself and the headers that describe the mail. The headers displayed are From, To, CC, Date and Subject. Below the headers you can read the mail.

Sending email

  1. Click the "Compose" link on the top of the screen.

  2. Fill in the fields TO: and SUBJECT:. In the TO: field you fill in the email address (someaccount@hotmail.com, for example) that you want to send your email to (you can also use names or addresses from your Address Book). In the Subject briefly describe what your email is about. Think of this as the title of your email.

  3. In the larger area type your message.

  4. If you feel your email is ready, click the "Send" button. This will send your email to the address you specified.

  5. By default, FastMail.FM will now take you to the "Add to Address Book" screen where you can choose to add the address that you just emailed to your Address Book.

  6. Click Cancel for now, unless you want to add the address.

You're now back in your mailbox view. Congrats, you just sent out an email!