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I've just switched to fastmail for email from gsuite and Gmail. It was effortless and I feel it works better than the Gmail systems did. I also enjoy the ease w
by buro9 5y ago
I've just switched to fastmail for email from gsuite and Gmail. It was effortless and I feel it works better than the Gmail systems did. I also enjoy the ease with which alias and catch all emails from my various domain names work.
The calendar though, this is proving the harder lock in from Google. Google calendar app on Android is superb but has no equivalent, especially if you have Google home devices or you use Android in your car, etc. At the moment I've moved my calendars to Google calendar and have yet to find an equivalent that works as well for it. Fastmail is good, but it's the apps for calendar which aren't quite there in my opinion.
- Macha 5y agoThere's no need to stop using Google Calendar (Android App) because you stopped using Google Calendar (provider) if that's what you prefer, it'll let you view calendars from any provider installed on your phone. Fastmail themselves recommend DAVx to sync with your Fastmail account for this purpose (https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000279881-Set-up-Fastmail-on-Android#calendar https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000279881-Se...), though it would be nice if Fastmail's own app integrated with the OS a bit more in terms of providing a calender to the OS, and having widgets for mail folders.
- Reitet00 5y agoThat's right. Just by coincidence I moved my calendars to Etesync recently and thanks to Android's great calendar provider architecture the frontend calendar app did not change (I'm using Etar). This nice API was designed in good old times when Google actually cared about interoperability.