So all of these apps like gmail, outlook, etc. let me login to all of my websites different emails but none of them seem to sync across devices. Is there an app that lets me login to all my inboxes once and then sync that logininfo across pc, iphone, and android?
Right now I have to manually add all the email accounts in to each device, none of the mobile apps sync to their pc counterparts.
I sync my emails using a Dovecot IMAP server on my home server. I fetch emails from all my accounts with fetchmail and sort them into the right folders using Sieve. They get indexed and are searchable (ultra fast!).
Basically what I said. Dovecot can be installed on every Linux or BSD system. You’ll need Pideonhole and FTS Flatcurve as extensions.
When you install fetchmail, you can let it connect to all your IMAP or POP3 servers. Each process will deliver your mail instantly to your own Dovecot server.
You’ll also need a certificate for Dovecot. This can be solved using Letsencrypt.
You can use any mail client you want. I use Fairemail on Android. On desktop and notebooks it’s Thunderbird.
Thunderbird (sort of), you can add all your accounts on the PC version, and then it’ll give a QR code to copy those accounts to the mobile app. But there’s not a continuous sync happening.
The Thunderbird desktop app for Linux has a “Export to Mobile” feature. It generates a QR code that you can scan on your phone to, I guess (I haven’t tried it), transfer the login info of your email accounts from desktop to phone. After that, IMAP should take care of syncing the emails from the server to each device.
You can also just copy your thunderbird profile directory, if it’s the same OS, to a different system and it seems to just work. I did this to copy the whole setup and synced mails from desktop to laptop. I also tried this from Windows -> Linux and it did not like that, so I used the import profile feature and re-entered all the passwords.
No iphone app yet, at least its planned, guess ill use gmail on my phone and do it manually for now, thunderbird for my pc and tablet. Odd that none of these apps let you sync all your email logins across platforms. Maybe they want you to get all your mail through just them and this would make competition easier.
Piggybacking on this, is there an app that will easily download your emails from Gmail and MS for backup purposes? Something like a pop3 frontend that will archive with folders and tags.
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I sync my emails using a Dovecot IMAP server on my home server. I fetch emails from all my accounts with fetchmail and sort them into the right folders using Sieve. They get indexed and are searchable (ultra fast!).
225000 emails in 13 GB (ZFS; uncompressed 18 GB).
Ive been looking for something like this. Please elaborate 🙂
Basically what I said. Dovecot can be installed on every Linux or BSD system. You’ll need Pideonhole and FTS Flatcurve as extensions.
When you install fetchmail, you can let it connect to all your IMAP or POP3 servers. Each process will deliver your mail instantly to your own Dovecot server.
You’ll also need a certificate for Dovecot. This can be solved using Letsencrypt.
You can use any mail client you want. I use Fairemail on Android. On desktop and notebooks it’s Thunderbird.
So when you login all your inboxes show up under one account and you don’t have to login multiple?
Thunderbird (sort of), you can add all your accounts on the PC version, and then it’ll give a QR code to copy those accounts to the mobile app. But there’s not a continuous sync happening.
Yeah, I don’t necessarily need a continuous sync, it’s just annoying to login to many accounts multiple times
The Thunderbird desktop app for Linux has a “Export to Mobile” feature. It generates a QR code that you can scan on your phone to, I guess (I haven’t tried it), transfer the login info of your email accounts from desktop to phone. After that, IMAP should take care of syncing the emails from the server to each device.
You can also just copy your thunderbird profile directory, if it’s the same OS, to a different system and it seems to just work. I did this to copy the whole setup and synced mails from desktop to laptop. I also tried this from Windows -> Linux and it did not like that, so I used the import profile feature and re-entered all the passwords.
No iphone app yet, at least its planned, guess ill use gmail on my phone and do it manually for now, thunderbird for my pc and tablet. Odd that none of these apps let you sync all your email logins across platforms. Maybe they want you to get all your mail through just them and this would make competition easier.
The Windows version has it as well
Piggybacking on this, is there an app that will easily download your emails from Gmail and MS for backup purposes? Something like a pop3 frontend that will archive with folders and tags.
https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/
Downloads email from most providers, allows for local (text) searches, and to upload it again to an imap provider.
https://www.offlineimap.org/ should do the trick