Table of Contents Contents Email

Contacts

Calendar

I’ve been a big fan of Windows Phone (now Windows Mobile) for a while and have had a few phones across versions 7, 8, and now 10. A while ago I switched to FastMail as my e-mail provider , but had been stuck using Google as my calendar provider still (and my contacts were on my Windows Live account). I had a desire to move all these onto a single account, but Windows 10 Mobile only officially supports e-mail from arbitrary providers. Calendar and contacts are limited to a few special providers.

Below I’ve outlined how I’ve gotten all three services (email, contacts, and calendar) from my FastMail account onto my Windows Mobile device.

Email Email is the easy one, FastMail even has a guide to setting up email on Windows Phone. This guide did not handle sending emails with a custom domain name, if you don’t have that situation, probably just use the FastMail guide. Add a new account, choose “other account”. Type in your email address (e.g. you@yourcustomdomain.com ) and password. It will complain about being unable to find proper account settings. Click “try again”. It will complain again, but not give you an option for “advanced”, click it. Choose “Internel email account”. Enter any “Account name” and “Your name” that you want. Choose “ IMAP4 ” as the “Account type”. Change the incoming mail server to mail.messagingengine.com . Change the username to your FastMail username (e.g. you@fastmail.com ). Change the outgoing mailserver to mail.messagingengine.com . Now when you send email it should show up properly as you@yourcustomdomain.com , but be sent via FastMail’s servers!