CardDAV beta for FastMail business and family accounts is here

At the end of last year, we talked about our initial release of CardDAV support into public beta test.

We’re now pleased to announce the next stage of our CardDAV beta release has launched. While previously only available for FastMail personal accounts, we’ve now extended this beta release as an opt-in for FastMail business and family accounts, with a full production release not far off!

Just to quickly recap: CardDAV is an internet protocol for reading, writing and synchronising contact data. It’s already on iOS devices and available as an app for Android. Basically, if you’ve ever wanted to have your FastMail contacts available on your mobile device (and vice-versa), then CardDAV is the answer.

With this ‘cross-device syncing’, CardDAV essentially pulls down contacts from the web server, makes any changes from your mobile device and then copies these back up into the server. With CardDAV syncing all your contacts, it’s much easier to access and manage contacts across all the devices you use to access your FastMail accounts.

Start using CardDAV

If you have a FastMail personal, business or family account, then you can start using CardDAV.

At the moment CardDAV is only available to Full account levels and higher for personal and family accounts, and Standard and higher for business accounts. Member, Guest and Lite accounts will need to upgrade to be able to use the CardDAV feature.