Email. I want a local email server where I can move old emails off the internet for archiving.
But the number of components going into email servers made me stop… I already have caddy reverse proxy, but finding out how to use it for a email server… I didn’t even get properly started
Simplest solution is often the best. To add to this, Thunderbird has what are called Local folders. If you have your other email accounts added, you can simply drag and drop everything into the Local folder to move them off the cloud and into local storage. No email server required. Definitely a good idea to take backups if storing important stuff locally though.
I use thunderbird connected to my normal mail account and the dovecot server to transfer mail archives between both.
I used to backup my mail to the “Local folders” account in thunderbird; that also works. It’s more for the convenience of having “everything on the server” and having access to my mail archive from a laptop and a desktop. It’s also easier to backup and restore for me.
Not sure about the proxy part, but on debianoids apt-get install dovecot with no further configuration gives you a pretty well functioning IMAP server. Just use your unix username to authenticate over imap.
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Email. I want a local email server where I can move old emails off the internet for archiving.
But the number of components going into email servers made me stop… I already have caddy reverse proxy, but finding out how to use it for a email server… I didn’t even get properly started
If you need it for this, and only this, the setup is actually very simple, you just need an IMAP server like dovecot https://github.com/nodiscc/xsrv/tree/master/roles/mail_dovecot
That sounds like what I want! Thanks! 🙏
I was thinking of using it for local email from other self-hosted services, but I am getting too old to set it up
being extremely lazy, you can use Thunderbird
Simplest solution is often the best. To add to this, Thunderbird has what are called Local folders. If you have your other email accounts added, you can simply drag and drop everything into the Local folder to move them off the cloud and into local storage. No email server required. Definitely a good idea to take backups if storing important stuff locally though.
Yeah I thought about it, but I couldn’t quite understand where the files went and how to restore on a new machine…
I like having everything on server. it takes care of backups, and the laptop/client can be reinstalled without fear
I use thunderbird connected to my normal mail account and the dovecot server to transfer mail archives between both.
I used to backup my mail to the “Local folders” account in thunderbird; that also works. It’s more for the convenience of having “everything on the server” and having access to my mail archive from a laptop and a desktop. It’s also easier to backup and restore for me.
Not sure about the proxy part, but on debianoids apt-get install dovecot with no further configuration gives you a pretty well functioning IMAP server. Just use your unix username to authenticate over imap.
isync can be used for archiving IMAP into maildir format, which is readable by all MUAs.
I’d run my own mail server if deliverability wasn’t such a huge hassle.
Basically if you’re not google or Microsoft… Don’t even bother.