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I have the weirdest calendar problem: if someone sends an invite to my Fastmail account, it gets swallowed up by Gmail. It never shows up in Fastmail, and in the calendar invite it appears as if it was sent to my Gmail address even though it wasn’t. It’s the strangest thing and I don’t know how to stop it or even what’s causing it (Fastmail support also had no idea).

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Does this always happen or only sometimes? In Google calendar, if the event is modified through the API, there is an option to suppress change notifications, and this can prevent non-google calendars from getting invites.

Also did you create a Google account using your fastmail address? I haven't tested it, but it's possible this causes a hairpin route where Google supresses the outbound email since it thinks it can directly modify the calendar.

It's very reliable, but only on ONE of my fastmail addresses. My Google account predates the fastmail one by a long time.

I had a theory that maybe at some point I set up iCloud with both of these accounts (fastmail + gmail) and it's somehow intercepting these and rewriting them. It's not a super strong theory. Another thought is maybe it's a DNS setting somewhere?

Is your Google email forwarded to the fastmail? If someone invites my personal email from Google calendar, my Gmail account gets put on the invite. I always attributed it to the forwarding. It's odd but also pretty convenient as I still use Google calendar.

Nope, there's no forwarding either direction.

Wow, that' sounds like something I'd love to figure out how to setup with my Fastmail...

I use Fastmail for my email, but due to... life, I still do all calendaring on Google, and so I often miss events that get sent to my Fastmail...

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