Announcing the FastMail Calendar

I switched from gmail to fastmail about six months ago and I&#x27;m very happy. It&#x27;s fast, relatively cheap ($40 a year for 15 gigs of storage) and they aren&#x27;t scanning my email to serve up advertisements. The addition of calendar is just another bonus that I&#x27;m immediately adopting.<p>Another great feature is the ability to use as many domains and email aliases as you want. I have all of my custom domains set up with both send a receive service, including DKIM. Also, if I ever need a throwaway email address, I just set it up, send an email, and then delete the address.

Here is an actual screenshot of the calendar: <a href="https://www.fastmail.fm/static/homepage/images/calendar.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastmail.fm&#x2F;static&#x2F;homepage&#x2F;images&#x2F;calendar.png</a>

What are the security benefits gained by using FastMail over Google (in the context of a state-level eavesdropper)? Is it that FastMail is a smaller target? If you take all your centralized information from Google and move it over to FastMail, it&#x27;s still centralized - what am I missing?

This is great! Well done. And not just from the Google Apps alternative perspective, the user interface is different. People might debate some of the major differences; but the infinite or continuous calendar scrolling feature along with the toolbar at the bottom makes navigating your calendar(s) easy. It feels more natural than Google’s … The syncing was easy to set up too; and will make transitioning off of Google a breeze.

I&#x27;ve been putting off switching away from google apps for my personal domain until fastmail had the tripod of mail+contacts+calendar in place, now to wait a couple of months for the initial bugs to be ironed out and it&#x27;s happening.

Good to see someone taking up competition against Google&#x2F;MS.<p>If only they&#x27;d move their servers to Iceland (they already have backups there).

This is awesome, especially the two-way sync with iCloud is really neat if you want to use it on devices with no iCloud support.

I&#x27;m waiting contact synchronisation and I&#x27;ll only need google for the play market ! pretty neat.

Very nice. Unfortunately for iCloud sync, you need to provide your Apple iCloud account email and password. Not a very good security practice, but Apple doesn&#x27;t provide any other way to accomplish this.<p>Fastmail does use Google authentication to access the Google Calendar.

What I&#x27;m really wanting is the ability to have completely separate IMAP accounts for my various domains, but it&#x27;s good to see they&#x27;re adding calendaring, that seemed like an odd omission

This might be the feature that makes me switch my personal email.

This is excellent, I&#x27;ve been very happy since switching to FastMail and now this just adds even more value. Keep it up FastMail!

I like this - really looking forward to a full featured google services replacement coming out of them.

Interested in switching off gmail. How are folks getting new email notifications on mobile?