Your full name. Used in the greeting text when you login to your account and in emails we send you.

For the name used on sending email, see the Personalities screen for more details.

This lets you select the time zone you are currently in. All dates and times of emails and logins will then be displayed in the selected time zone.

This popup lets you choose how often FastMail.FM contacts you. The options are:

Controls whether keyboard shortcuts are enabled in the web interface. Most common keys are:

See this wiki page for more keys.

When keyboard shortcuts are disabled, there is only one special shortcut key left enabled, ctrl-space, which brings up the action menu

Controls which web interface to use. We recommend you use the new interface (available since Feb 2009), which has more features such as better searching, keyboard shortcuts, and a more modern look.

Some very old systems (eg. Web TV) don't support the new interface, so you should use the old interface if you access regularly from one of those systems. The old interface will eventually be discontinued, probably sometime in 2010.

Controls which display style to use. The web interface allows significant customisation through different stylesheets. The new interface currently has only a few different styles, but more are expected to be available in the future.

New new interface allows you to tweak the web interface with custom css and js files. This is designed for advanced users who know what they're doing. We don't offer customer support in creating specific tweaks.

See our wiki css tweaks and js tweaks pages for more information.

When you login to the new interface, your username is displayed at the top right of the page. This is because some users have a few different accounts, and it makes it easy to see immediately which account you're in.

Some people prefer not to see this, or to customise what is displayed. This textbox lets you choose specific text to be displayed instead, or you can use the special terms USERNAME to display your account username, or FULLNAME to display your account Full name.

By default, any outgoing email messages are wrapped at 72 characters, in order to make your messages easily viewable for a wide range of email reading software.

If you uncheck this checkbox, FastMail.FM will leave any long lines unwrapped. Note that this may cause problems for some people, so you should only clear this checkbox if you are certain that the recipients of your message are able to deal with long lines.

When you reply to or forward a message, this controls what happens to the original message content.

Note that this controls the default action when replying or forwarding. You can change the action on a per-message basis. To do that, just reply to/forward the message as you normally would, and then after you get to the compose screen, select the quoting action you actually want from the Action menu on the compose screen.

When you reply to a message, an attribution of the form:

Is added before the message.

You can customise the attribute line attached by editing this field. There are a number of substitution parameters you can use that include information from the original email. More information about the format of this field can be found on the custom attribution line wiki page.

Normally FastMail.FM will change the character set of the view message screen to the appropriate character set for that message, thus allowing you to view messages in foreign languages correctly. Unfortunately this is not possible on the Mailbox screen because different messages could use different character sets.

However, if you tend to receive lots of messages with the same character set, you can set it here so that all screens without a known character set use this one instead.

The default value used is ISO-8859-1. We recommend that you leave it as the default unless you specifically know that you want to read and write messages in a different charset by default.

This enables a basic phishing protection algorithim used when viewing messages. It looks for links in emails that appear to have a hostname, but where the actual link points to a different hostname to the hostname in the text of the link.

This can detect some obvious phishing links, but can also cause false positives quite regularly (especially in newsletter type emails) and so can be disabled here.

The standard email headers display on the message read screen shows the From address, To address, Cc address (if any) and Date. You can view the full headers of the message by clicking the "Show full header" link on the message view screen.

Some people have particular headers they regularly want to see, without having to view all the headers. By entering a comma separated list of headers here, they will be displayed on the message read screen in the standard header list by default. Some examples of useful headers (but you can choose any you want):