Of all our products, only Fastmail has any built-in calendaring (… so far …), and there’s a number of different ways you can put one to use.
When people think of using calendars, this is what they usually mean.
A calendar for yourself, to record your appointments. You can invite others to your events, which causes a special kind of email to be sent to your guests. When your guest responds, it sends a special rsvp email in return which will update your calendar.
You can set reminders on your events via email or a popup so you don’t forget what’s coming up.
More information about personal calendars.
A read-only calendar you subscribe to from somewhere else for information like public holidays, or whether someone else is free or busy. This calendar comes in the form of a URL which points to a .ics
file. You can’t update this calendar, just see its events.
You can’t invite people to these events.
Setting alarms may or may not work, depending on how the external calendar provider manages their calendar events.
More information about subscribed calendars.
Use a synchronised calendar when you have a calendar hosted on another service (such as iCloud, or Google) but you want to be able to see and edit the events from your FastMail interface.
Use this if you have a different calendar provider and you’re not ready to migrate your calendar to FastMail yet. Use this if you have a shared calendar with someone else and want to be able to make edits in each other’s calendars (not just sending invites), for notifying about family events and the like.
Any changes made to these events in FastMail or on the other server will be mirrored in both locations.
You can make new events in these calendars from FastMail and invite others to your events providing you have an identity and alias that matches your remote calendar host.
Reminders can be set from FastMail or the remote server and both instances will send out the alert.
More information about synchronised calendars.
For multi-user FastMail accounts, you can share a calendar with some or all of your colleagues, choosing whether they can see the events, see and edit events, or whether they can do anything you can do, on that calendar.
FastMail shared calendars currently only support "secretary" mode. This means any event made by someone else in your shared calendar is owned by you: invitations are emailed out using your address, and rsvps are returned to your email account.
Each user can set their own alarm for any event, however, whether they are invited or not.
More information about shared calendars.
All calendars are visible from your mobile device, either directly through the FastMail apps, or synchronised to a app on your phone, tablet or desktop. We have instructions on how to configure your calendar client.
If you’d like to find out more, read our help on calendaring, which has tips on troubleshooting, date formatting and keyboard shortcuts to help you navigate your calendar faster. (Like using "t" to go to today. )
We can also help you out if you’re looking to import your calendar or migrate your calendar from another provider.
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