Migrate your calendar to Fastmail

Had enough of multiple notifications? Want to keep your calendar and mail in one convenient location? Migrate your external calendars onto Fastmail.

• Automatically migrate using our migration tool
• Manually import your calendar
• Multiple notifications
• Known issues and workarounds

Automatically migrate using our migration tool

When migrating from other services, you can use our Migration tool to import your calendars (and contacts if applicable).

1. Go to the Settings → Migration → Import screen.
2. In the Import mail, calendars, and contacts sectio, 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. You'll then be asked what you want to import. Please select Calendars to import them from your other service. If available, you can also select Contacts.
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.

Export the calendar from your other provider

If you haven't done so yet, you need to first manually export your calendar from your other provider. Here are instructions for exporting calendar data from common providers:

• Google
• iCloud
• Outlook
• Apple Calendar
• Mozilla Lightning
• Yahoo Calendar

If your provider doesn't have an option to export all your data to a file, you can synchronize your calendar via CalDAV to Fastmail first, then export the calendar. If you're able to export directly via your provider, then you can move on to the Import your calendar into Fastmail section to continue the process of importing your 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.

1. Go to the Settings → Calendars menu. For each calendar you want to migrate, click on Export and select Download. (More detailed instructions on exporting your calendars are here).
2. Remove the synchronization link to the external calendar by going to Settings → Calendars. You can click on Remove Account (which will remove all calendars syncing on that account), or remove calendars individually by selecting Edit & Share and then clicking Remove Calendar on the next page.

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

Import your calendar into Fastmail

1. Go to the Settings → Migration → Import screen.
2. In the Import mail, calendars, and contacts section, select the Upload contacts and calendars option.
3. Under Calendars, click on Select file and select your calendar file to upload. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the file directly into that spot as well.

Multiple notifications

If you want to avoid getting multiple notifications, disable the notifications or delete the calendar from where you originally created it. Otherwise, you'll receive notifications from the original calendar, and also receive notifications from the imported calendar at Fastmail as well.

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.