Migrate your calendar to Fastmail

Migrate your external calendars into Fastmail to keep your calendar and mail in one convenient location.

• Import your calendar using our migration tool
• Manually import your calendar
• Avoid multiple notifications
• Known issues and workarounds

Import your calendar using our migration tool

The easiest way to import calendars from other services is using our migration tool.

1. Go to the Settings → Migration → Import screen.
2. In the Import mail, calendars, and contacts section, select your other mail provider. If your mail provider is not listed, you can select the Other (IMAP / CardDAV / CalDAV) option.
3. On the next screen, you'll be asked to log in to your external account.
4. Select Calendars to import them from your other service.
5. Click Do It.

You can continue to use your account as normal while the migration is running.

Manually import your calendar

If you need to import a calendar manually or upload a calendar that is stored on your computer, you can do this instead of using automatic migration.

Import your calendar into Fastmail

1. Go to the Settings → Migration → Import screen.
2. Click Upload contacts and calendars.
3. Under Calendars, click Select file and select your calendar file to upload. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the file directly.

Exporting calendars from other providers

Here are instructions for exporting calendar data from common providers:

• Google
• Mac or iCloud
• Outlook
• Mozilla Lightning

If your provider doesn't have an option to export all your data to a file, you may be able to instead synchronize your calendar via CalDAV to Fastmail first, then export the calendar. 

Synchronize your calendar to Fastmail via CalDAV

If you already have your external calendars synchronized via CalDAV with Fastmail, this option is for you.

Go to the Settings → Calendars menu. For each calendar you want to migrate, click Export and select Download. (More detailed instructions on exporting your calendars in Fastmail are here).

You will now have a calendar file on your computer in an iCal (.ics) format, ready to be imported to Fastmail.

You will also want to remove the synchronization link to the external calendar. In Settings → Calendars, you can click Remove account, which will remove all calendars syncing on that account, or remove calendars individually by selecting the calendar and then clicking Remove calendar on the next page.

Avoid multiple notifications

If you want to avoid getting multiple notifications, you will want to disable the notifications or delete the calendar from where you originally created it.

Otherwise, you'll receive notifications from both the original calendar and from the imported calendar in Fastmail.

Known issues and workarounds

If you've imported an event to Fastmail that has people marked as attending already, you won't be able to update this event. This is because the system can't check to make sure that you are the original owner of the event. This will also happen if you are already marked as going to an event when you import it to Fastmail.

As a workaround, if you are attending an event, ask the organizer for a new invite to be sent to your Fastmail account.

Likewise, any updates to those events (changes in RSVP's or updates to day/time/location) will be sent to your old calendar email address. While these updates can be sent along to Fastmail (if you have forwarding or fetch set up with your old address), you won't be able to update the events they belong to through Fastmail.

For events where you are the organizer, try deleting the old event and recreate it from within Fastmail. This will send out new emails to all your invitees, from your new address.

Having problems?

Check out our calendar troubleshooting guide.