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Is there a selfhosted webmail client or solution that downloads and stores emails locally? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Redux28@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Hello all, i am not sure if plain webmail is the right category for what i'm looking for.

I already have a mail server running in a hosting VPS that has been running for years and handles sending and receiving emails without issues or being flagged as spam, what I'm trying to accomplish is:

  • Handling the storage of very old and large mailboxes (imap 20gb+) to my local server since my VPS is runing out of space.
  • Continue using the VPS email server to receive/send emails. Since i'm not at all interested in selfhosting the email server and dealing with all those issues.
  • Multiuser since several family members have the same issue.
  • Selfhosted so we can check/send email from any device/mobile.

Something that works similar (but obviously not selfhosted) is adding a POP3 account to Gmail/Outlook/etc and then adding the "send mail as" SMTP credentials of the server. I would like to replicate the same but selfhosted if possible.

Is there anything that works like this?

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[–] GrumpyCat79@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I use fetchmail to grab mail from an email provider and deliver it to my dovecot instance hosted at home. My mail provider is just used to store mail temporarly (up to a minute unless my server is down) and send email (I use their SMTP server).

That way, my data is stored at home but I don't have usual 'selfhosted mail server' issues. I can be down for days and my email will be received by my provider and I don't need to do/setup/maintain anything to ensure my mail will be deliverable!

With a custom domain and nothing that stay on their server, I can switch provider within a few minutes by updating the nameserver to point my domain to another server