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Is there a selfhosted webmail client or solution that downloads and stores emails locally? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months 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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[-] Jesswade 1 points 1 day ago

To manage your sizable email accounts without hiring additional server space from your VPS for tens of Old emails (20Gb+), you can set up self-hosted IMAP archiving using, for example, Dovecot on your own server. You can still send/receive emails using your VPS and if multi-user access is needed, a self-hosted webmail server such as Roundcube or Rainloop can be deployed. These would allow you and other members of your family to retrieve the archived online emails and compose new ones using the VPS SMTP credentials in a manner similar to the filling in of a POP3 email account on Gmail or Outlook for accessing VPS emails. This allows you to house email accounts on your VPS but relocate the archived emails.

this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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