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Announcing the FastMail Calendar
- vayan 12y agoI'm waiting contact synchronisation and I'll only need google for the play market ! pretty neat.
- Rudism 12y agoI've been waiting for some way to synchronize contacts on FM for years. According to posts on the support forum, they are pretty close to having CardDAV support implemented. Fingers crossed that they roll it out soon.
- dublinben 12y agoYou should check out the alternative app store F-Droid. It is completely free software apps, and all are Ad-free and high quality. There are alternatives or replacements for just about anything you might want, and you don't need Google anything.
- joelrunyon 12y agoI like this - really looking forward to a full featured google services replacement coming out of them.
- dewey 12y agoThis is awesome, especially the two-way sync with iCloud is really neat if you want to use it on devices with no iCloud support.
- TarpitCarnivore 12y agoI was excited to see this, and it works quite well, my only wish is that I could manage one calendar and have the changes push out to all connected calendars.
- ericcholis 12y agoThis might be the feature that makes me switch my personal email.
- webjames 12y agoI switched about a year ago now (from Google Apps), and very happy with the email service. However this and 'contact sync' (coming soon) will make it a very real possibility for a lot more people. Well done fastmail! At the moment I still have my calendar with iCloud, contacts with Google and email with FastMail.
- ericcholis 12y agoIt's worth asking, is there a similar set of services that one could run on their own? Controlling one's own data and all that...
- TarpitCarnivore 12y agoI guess you could try OwnCloud, but I'm unaware of it supports mail in any capacity.
- Semaphor 12y agoOwnCloud's calendar doesn't support subscribing to changing calendars (like Facebook event feed; you have to setup an automatic import manually).
- dublinben 12y agoKolab is pretty much a drop-in replacement for Google mail, calendar, etc.
- BozeWolf 12y agoWhy would you switch? The only benefit to me is: my mail/calendar is not on the servers of big companies like Google or Apple. I somehow (not objectiviley) like the impression Fastmail gives me. The cowboy-ish yet serious way they try to compete with the big ones. That might be a reason to join too.
- ppetty 12y agoThis 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.
- sinisterz06 12y agoThis is excellent, I've been very happy since switching to FastMail and now this just adds even more value. Keep it up FastMail!
- Oculus 12y agoWhat 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's still centralized - what am I missing?
- bradfa 12y agoFrom a government spying perspective, I'd say there's no benefit. Fastmail servers, at least for US customers are in the NYC area at nyi.net, iirc. I imagine most customers (myself included) are using fastmail instead of Google to avoid Google, or similar, not to avoid the governments.
- tombrossman 12y agoThis is exactly why I switched to Fastmail. It isn't for the 'tinfoil hat' crowd, who already know to avoid any service with assets in the US. Some of us think having an advertising company handle our email no longer makes sense. I think anyone looking for a third-party commercial email service free from government snooping is already off to a bad start.
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- opendais 12y agoReally the only thing is the local legal environment. http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/10/07/fastmails-servers-are-in-the-us-what-this-means-for-you/ http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/10/07/fastmails-servers-are-in-...
- jstalin 12y agoI switched from gmail to fastmail about six months ago and I'm very happy. It's fast, relatively cheap ($40 a year for 15 gigs of storage) and they aren't scanning my email to serve up advertisements. The addition of calendar is just another bonus that I'm immediately adopting. 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.
- Dorian-Marie 12y agoHere is an actual screenshot of the calendar: https://www.fastmail.fm/static/homepage/images/calendar.png https://www.fastmail.fm/static/homepage/images/calendar.png
- toomuchtodo 12y agoI'd argue its a better presentation than Google Calendar, and I love Google Calendar.
- Dorian-Marie 12y agoFor comparaison: http://i.imgur.com/8i7w27C.png http://i.imgur.com/8i7w27C.png I still prefer Google Calendar or Apple Calendar interface: https://www.apple.com/osx/apps/images/galleries/calendar_hero_2x.jpg https://www.apple.com/osx/apps/images/galleries/calendar_her...
- leejoramo 12y agoVery 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't provide any other way to accomplish this. Fastmail does use Google authentication to access the Google Calendar.
- 2mur 12y agoInterested in switching off gmail. How are folks getting new email notifications on mobile?
- keidian 12y agoI'm using fastmail and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onegravity.k10.pro2&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onegravity... on push notifications, no issues at all. Very happy with it
- garblegarble 12y agoWhat I'm really wanting is the ability to have completely separate IMAP accounts for my various domains, but it's good to see they're adding calendaring, that seemed like an odd omission
- hga 12y agoI know they've been working on it for a while, I remember reading at least one progress report or the like. They undoubtedly got diverted by being bought by Opera when they sold the company to it in 2010 and did various things for it, then bought the company back in September of last year. Now that they're again their own masters, we've been seeing a lot of improvements ... and I myself am happy that I can continue using their older "classic" UI because I don't think their New and Improved one is, at least for myself and how I use it.
- sandstrom 12y agoGood to see someone taking up competition against Google/MS. If only they'd move their servers to Iceland (they already have backups there).
- winestock 12y agoThere are only a handful of independent nations in the world. They are Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and "the international community." Iceland is a part of the empire. I wish that it weren't so. I do sympathize with your wish for privacy.
- jackvalentine 12y agoI'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's happening.
- conradk 12y agoI've ben using beta.fastmail.fm since I signed up. The calendar has been in Beta for months. Big bugs would most likely already have been fixed.
- jackvalentine 12y agoAlways there is a difference between "bugs discovered in beta" and "bugs discovered when you let your application loose on the wider public". I don't have time to deal with bugs in my calendars, so will wait.