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The mobile app is just a native shell around a browser serving up the mobile website -- why can't they have an array of account credentials and allow switching accounts? It's the little things like this that have me annoyed that I'm not just paying cash but also in terms of time and efficiency because of the features Fastmail lacks.

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We do have that and have had for quite a few months now. Multiple account support in the app works nicely.

The reason we didn't ship it earlier was around push notifications and the way our accounts are sharded - if you had two different accounts on different backends, merging the pushes into a single badge count and keeping track of the per-device push credentials across the multiple backends was buggy, so it would have provided a sub-standard experience for everybody.

Hi! Thanks for the great service/product. Is there any possible roadmap for offline mail access on mobile in the future? I really can't be the only one that needs to access my email at various times without cell reception/wifi.

Okay, thank you for adding that feature but does everyone at FM know about it? I contacted support asking when the mobile app would add support for multiple FM accounts (like Gmail has) and was told "No time soon -- it's not even on the roadmap."

I wonder if they interpreted your question to be "will it support NON-FM accounts", to which the "no time soon" answer is correct. That would only be viable if said other accounts also supported JMAP, and nobody else has that yet. I can go look at the ticket if you can give me the ticket number.

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