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> The upcoming email hosting service from Thunderbird will support IMAP, SMTP and JMAP out of the box

Is there any email hosting out there with support for JMAP?

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AFAIK, only Fastmail (which was the creator of JMAP).

Also https://stalw.art/

Stalwart is a mail server program, not a live email server you can pay someone money to use.

One can of course use Stalwart to run a hosted email service.

https://stalw.art/managed-email/

> Let us handle the complexities of your email infrastructure with our comprehensive managed email server service.

That's fair! I didn't know they were offering that. I think it's a recent development -- it's not generally available ("contact us"), and it seems more focused at enterprise-type deployments than end-user mail that your typical Fastmail/Protonmail/etc.

But for the original question:

> Is there any email hosting out there with support for JMAP?

Stalwart really isn't a practical answer, at least yet.

Thundermail uses Stalwart

I much prefer POP, as I only send and receive emails on my desktop computer and I want to decide when I fetch new emails. Is there any way to make IMAP work more like POP?

Just disable any automatic fetching. IMAP is not pushing mails to you, but the client regularly pulls.

fdm, imapsync, lots of similar alternatives. Synchronize email to your machine and then use any MUA, or even several of them, to read it from a local directory (Thunderbird also works AFAIK).

They can also remove email from the remote and keep just the local copy. Pretty much 1:1 with POP. I've been using this setup (with fdm) for probably more than a decade.

I would hope this starts building momentum outside of Fastmail and maybe we see support added to clients like Apple Mail

Fastmail has had it for a while.

I'd hope so, they kinda made it :)

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