The operamail.com domain is owned by Opera, not Fastmail. We've handled mail at this domain on Opera's behalf since Fastmail staff bought back the company in 2013. Opera has since advised us that they will no longer allow us to handle mail through this domain.
Why though?
How come Fastmail handles mails on Opera's behalf, and why Opera now prevents Fastmail from doing it? How come they couldn't manage to agree on a way to avoid losing their users' email addresses?
The new owner of Opera is a Chinese company. If they want to implement their own email project with the same name, I'm sure they've got a few strong requirements that fastmail wouldn't want to comply with.
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Why though?
How come Fastmail handles mails on Opera's behalf, and why Opera now prevents Fastmail from doing it? How come they couldn't manage to agree on a way to avoid losing their users' email addresses?
The new owner of Opera is a Chinese company. If they want to implement their own email project with the same name, I'm sure they've got a few strong requirements that fastmail wouldn't want to comply with.
Fastmail was temporarily (see below!) called "Operamail" until they bought themselves out from Opera in 2013.
Fastmail was originally an independent company that was acquired by Opera. Later they became independent again.