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Fastmail doesn't (and, due to their model, can't) encrypt your email at rest in a way they can't read it.

I can't recommend using an email system like this to anyone who cares about security or privacy.

Fastmail admins can themselves read your entire email history, as well as any law enforcement fishing expedition in US or AUS.

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That's true, but hardly unique to them; proton is the only email provider I know of that even tries to cover that case.

Hushmail did it years ago, until they were eventually forced to backdoor their client to steal a surveillance target's pass phrase.

Law enforcement or fastmail admins reading my personal email isn’t something I want, but isn’t so distasteful as for it to really be in my threat model such that I’m willing to go the lengths required to get an email provider that doesn’t have this ability, such as proton mail. I care about security and privacy and recommend fastmail, but I could see someone whose end all be all criterion of interest being privacy not wanting to use fastmail. But, this isn’t 99.999% of the population.

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