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So you want the client to save them instead?
What if they're using a web client? Browser storage? Unencrypted or do they need to enter a pw every time they log in?
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I think this would be very difficult to do correctly, especially in a manner that would work for people whose first question isn't how much metadata the server has access to
Well, unless you login and transfer all your keys every time, the client already has all the info required to fetch and decrypt all the messages.