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This is the #1 reason why I'm going to switch away from Fastmail when my current billing cycle ends. The #2 reason is that they're Australian.

Otherwise I've been super happy with them.

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I wouldn't switch mail providers over this... There are other email clients out there (although, it's sort of nice to use a first party one), and IMAP (or JMAP) should work fine for offline.

I would probably not switch if it were only issue #1 or issue #2, but with both it has me shopping. I might fail to find a better alternative, of course, but I haven't given up yet.

A different client is definitely the fallback, though I haven't found a great one of those either. Granted it's been ~6 years since I last searched.

Open to suggestions!

I like K-9.

https://k9mail.app/

What are you switching to?

Not sure yet. ProtonMail doesn't work offline either and is apparently not straightforward to use with other clients. I wish it were sensible to host your own email, but I've heard that's a horrible misadventure.

ProtonMail iOS app works offline, at least you can read email and draft email offline. The client is also open source but they don’t seen overly keen on accepting contributions.

Ah, I didn't check iOS - I would use an Android client.

Aren’t their servers all in the US?

Doesn't matter. Under Australian law they can still be compelled to install backdoors.

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