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Just this week, I uninstalled all my desktop mail clients: no more Thunderbird, MailMate, or eM Client.

Fastmail's web app feels faster, uses fewer resources, and has the same UI on all of my computers.

Instead of redirecting all other accounts into Fastmail, it has a simple UI to setup fetching-from and sending-as from other mail providers, and with using my own domain, it does not feel like a lock-in.

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Aren't you concerned about getting locked out of an email account and not having a local backup? Or even Fastmail having a serious issue and losing data?

I did something similar and opted to solely use Fastmail's web client.

For backup, I regularly run isync on my home server: https://isync.sourceforge.io/

This just isn't feasible for me from a usability perspective. Private email is with Fastmail, but work email is something else entirely. Both have good webmails, but vastly different UX. By using Thunderbird I can get the same UI/UX for all the different email providers. If I only had Fastmail, I'd also be OK with just using their webmail, it's excellent.

I'm a Fastmail user and I've been pretty happy with my mutt + mbsync / msmtp setup on macOS. It's nice to have a local copy of your mail at all times.

Text data compresses well. Mail archive can be extremely useful. Didn't you consider some archiving options? Putting all bets on webmail seems a bit risky to me.

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