I’m tempted to move to email with my own domain, but don’t really care about the server side of things, I guess I’m following the line that self hosted email is not easy to do, and not sure how reliable I can make my servers.
The other option is to have some other system do the email hosting, and if it is through my domain then there should be no issues with moving around if needed. Hosting all the email archive isn’t really needed either, I’d be fine self hosting or storing the archive.
Is there a set up where some remote service handles email exchange, and you just sync with it eg through POP style interfaces? Id actually prefer if my own server was doing the sync rather than a desktop running Thunderbird etc, that way it is kind of self hosted but also robust to down time. What’s the best practice along these lines?
Thanks, that sounds useful.
Do you know of a self hosted webmail interface that has good features? So I guess that would run on the self hosted mail archive after imapsync.
I don’t have any personal experience with self hosted webmail. I know there are a bunch out there and definitely both options that can sit in front of a maildir and options that can sit in front of a POP/IMAP server like Dovecot.
I did a little googling, and if I wanted to set this up, the first thing I’d check out is something like
imapsync -> dovecot -> Roundcube.Dovecot provides a really reliable maildir -> IMAP/POP conversion layer, and once you’ve got that, most things should work.