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I didn't even get into the remaining compatible with the existing contacts system. CalDAV was green field, but CardDAV had to integrate with the web, with spam scanning (whitelist/score bonus for known users), with mailing list address book groups, ...

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The only feature I miss with your CardDAV implementation is contact photos. Everything else works very well so I leave email and calendaring to FastMail but I'm back to self-hosted contacts for now. Really hope this can be added soon.

They do work, but only if you upload them via CardDAV - we don't have any UI for them in the web client yet.

Interesting, I'll have to try again. When I first used the beta I imported a VCF exported from ownCloud (which I think stored the images as data URIs). I'll try to figure out how to upload them via CardDAV now, thanks.

To add something to what @robn already said - with Google Apps the resolution you get on contacts syncing is 96x96 pixels. Not sure what resolution FastMail supports, but seems to be OK on my 1440x2560 phone.

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