Calendar accounts

Calendar brings together three kinds of calendar. This page explains each one, how to connect calendar accounts, what is stored on this device, and every message you may see while connecting.

My calendar

My calendar is always there, under ON THIS DEVICE in the sidebar. You need no account to use it.

• Its events are stored on this computer, encrypted with a key held in this device’s keychain.
• They are never sent anywhere, except as invitations to guests you add, by your own mail account.
• They do not appear on your other devices.
• Settings › Privacy and security › Erase everything on this device deletes it.

Invitations in mail

For every connected mail account, Calendar reads the invitations in that mailbox and shows them in a calendar named Invitations in mail, under INVITATIONS — address.

• Invitations are found in the most recent messages of the mailbox, the same window Documents and Team read. Under the calendar, a line says how far back that is, such as The last 1,000 of 8,432 messages.
• Click Look further back to read five times as many messages, up to 25,000. When there is nothing further to read, the line says so, or says Every message in your mail has been read — N of them.
• You can answer these invitations, but not edit or delete them. See Answer an invitation.
• If an invitation is also in a connected calendar, it is shown once, from the calendar.

If no mail account and no calendar account is connected, Calendar shows No account is connected, so there are no invitations to read. Events you add are kept on this device.

Open Calendar accounts

Use either:

• Add calendar account at the foot of the Calendar sidebar, or
• Settings › Calendar › Calendar accounts › Manage.

The Calendar accounts window says Events you add go to the calendar you choose, and changes made on your phone or the web appear here within a few minutes. It has three parts:

Press Esc or click Close to close the window.

Connect Google Calendar

For a Gmail account already connected in Mail:

1. Open Calendar accounts.
2. Under FROM YOUR MAIL ACCOUNTS, find Google Calendar with the account’s address.
3. Click Connect. Its tooltip reads Opens Google in the browser to allow calendar access.
4. In the browser, choose the same Google account, and allow access to both your calendar and your mail.
5. Return to Nixt Mail. While it waits, the window says Waiting for the browser….

When it works, the window says Google Calendar connected for address**.**, the button reads Connected, and the account’s calendars appear in the sidebar under GOOGLE — address. Google Calendar uses the same sign-in as the mail account; no password is typed into Nixt Mail.

If you close the browser without finishing, nothing changes.

Connect a Microsoft 365 calendar

For an Outlook.com or Microsoft 365 account already connected in Mail:

1. Open Calendar accounts.
2. Under FROM YOUR MAIL ACCOUNTS, find Microsoft 365 calendar with the account’s address.
3. Click Connect. Its tooltip reads Opens Microsoft in the browser to allow calendar access.
4. In the browser, choose the same account and allow calendar access.

When it works, the window says Microsoft 365 calendar connected for address**.** and the calendars appear under MICROSOFT — address.

Connect iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail or another CalDAV server

These services connect with an app password — a separate password the service creates for one app — rather than your account password.

1. Open Calendar accounts.
2. Do one of the following:
   • Under FROM YOUR MAIL ACCOUNTS, click Set up beside the account’s calendar. The form is filled in with the account’s address.
   • Under OTHER CALENDAR SERVICES, click iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail or Another CalDAV server.
3. Read the note above the form. It says where to create an app password for that service.
4. Check or fill in the fields:
   • Server — filled in for iCloud, Yahoo and Fastmail. For another server, type its CalDAV address, which is on the service’s help page.
   • Email address — the account’s address.
   • User name — usually the email address, and filled in from it.
   • App password — the app password you created.
5. Click Connect, or press Return in the password field. The button reads Connecting… while Nixt Mail works.

Nixt Mail finds the account’s calendars, starting from the address you gave, before it saves anything. When it works, the window says Connected — N calendars added. If the password is wrong, nothing is saved and the form shows why.

The password is kept in this device’s keychain. The account’s address, server and user name are kept in Nixt Mail’s settings.

Remove a calendar account

1. Open Calendar accounts.
2. Under CONNECTED, click Remove beside the account.

The account’s calendars leave the sidebar, and its stored password is deleted from the keychain. Nothing is deleted from the calendar service.

Keep calendars up to date

• While Nixt Mail is open, connected calendars are checked again every five minutes, because other people change shared calendars.
• To check now, click the refresh button in the Calendar header, press R, or choose View › Refresh Calendars.
• Every change you make is written to the service with the version Nixt Mail last read. If someone else changed the event in the meantime, your change is refused rather than overwriting theirs. Refresh and make the change again.

Keep an offline copy

The offline copy keeps connected calendars on this device so they open at once and can be read without a connection. It is off until you turn it on.

1. Open Settings › Calendar.
2. Under Calendar accounts, turn on Offline copy.

With it on, the setting reads Kept encrypted on this device with a key in its keychain. Turning this off deletes the copy. With it off, it reads Connected calendars open from their servers each time, and are empty with no connection.

What the copy holds and how it behaves:

• The calendars of each connected account, and their events for the few months you last looked at.
• Encrypted with its own key, held in this device’s keychain.
• A calendar with a copy opens from it at once, then checks its server and redraws only if something changed.
• If the server cannot be reached, the copy stays on screen and the sidebar says Can’t reach the server. Showing the copy saved on this device.
• Refresh always asks the server, even for a calendar just shown from its copy.
• Turning Offline copy off deletes the copy and its key. Erase everything on this device deletes them too.
• Restore defaults in Settings › Calendar does not turn it off.

What is stored on this device

See Privacy and security for everything else Nixt Mail stores.

Messages

Messages while connecting appear in red under the form. Messages about a calendar that is already connected appear under its group in the sidebar.