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gaadd33 | karma 752 | avg karma 1.29 · 2019-02-25 07:09:14

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

brongondwana | karma 4231 | avg karma 5.98 · 2019-02-25 07:11:34+00:00

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

ascar | karma 3779 | avg karma 4.44 · 2019-02-25 07:27:55+00:00

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

brongondwana | karma 4231 | avg karma 5.98 · 2019-02-25 07:50:13

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!

ocdtrekkie | karma 24767 | avg karma 2.6 · 2019-02-25 15:32:33+00:00

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?

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dannysu | karma 629 | avg karma 4.56 · 2019-02-25 11:15:29+00:00

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