<story><title>Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here&apos;s what we know</title><url>https://fastmail.blog/legal-policy/russia-blocking-fastmail-to-customers-living-in-russia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deeblering4</author><text>I highly recommend scheduling a regular mbsync job to keep a local copy of your emails in sync with the imap server.&lt;p&gt;With this it&amp;#x27;s easy to pick up and move to a different provider or recover from outages, account closure, etc.&lt;p&gt;If you couple this with your own domain your email will be very portable.</text></comment>
<story><title>Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here&apos;s what we know</title><url>https://fastmail.blog/legal-policy/russia-blocking-fastmail-to-customers-living-in-russia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mulander</author><text>The article touches on new signups being blocked, what happens to the current paying users in the region? Are they also blocked? How is fastmail helping them move&amp;#x2F;supporting them in this situation?&lt;p&gt;I am a fastmail customer in a different region (Poland). I am however looking closely at this as who knows, maybe I will be on the receiving end in the future?</text></comment>