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Does Fastmail offer an auto-backup option? Or any other email provider?

You can auto-download from just about anywhere that provides standard IMAP access!

Even POP3 should suffice for backups. It downloads the complete emails by default anyway :)

POP3 is tricky when you use server-side rules to file emails into multiple folders. You can use + login to fetch each folder individually, but IMAP is definitely nicer to work with. And of course JMAP is coming!

Bron, I do (kinda) take backups of my FastMail account via an Outlook sync occasionally, but I'd really much rather you also had a Takeout-esque "one and done" download that included calendar and contact data and all. For my major online accounts, I like keeping an archive of these, compressed and dated.

Is there any chance FastMail will implement this anytime soon?

I use offlineimap (https://www.offlineimap.org/) weekly to backup my email from FastMail.

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