Seems like an IMAP Server locally run could defray the entire expense of
personal email servers. For business where it’s likely necessary on a
company/private server that wouldn’t be an option.
For me, iCloud accounts are included with other services so there’s no
financial incentive. My
On 7 Feb 2022, at 14:46, Pete Resnick via mailmate wrote:
> On 7 Feb 2022, at 0:50, Fredrik Jonsson wrote:
>
>> mailmate--- via mailmate 2022-02-07 1:33 wrote:
>>
>>> The secure way would be to run a real IMAP server on your machine, to which
>>> MailMate can connect locally. I haven’t tried
On 7 Feb 2022, at 0:50, Fredrik Jonsson wrote:
mailmate--- via mailmate 2022-02-07 1:33 wrote:
The secure way would be to run a real IMAP server on your machine, to
which MailMate can connect locally. I haven’t tried myself, but
running [Dovecot](https://www.dovecot.org/) in a container
On 7 Feb 2022, at 7:50, Fredrik Jonsson wrote:
> mailmate--- via mailmate 2022-02-07 1:33 wrote:
>
>> The secure way would be to run a real IMAP server on your machine, to which
>> MailMate can connect locally. I haven’t tried myself, but running
>> [Dovecot](https://www.dovecot.org/) in a
mailmate--- via mailmate 2022-02-07 1:33 wrote:
> The secure way would be to run a real IMAP server on your machine, to which
> MailMate can connect locally. I haven’t tried myself, but running
> [Dovecot](https://www.dovecot.org/) in a container should work.
I have done this for many years.
On 7 Feb 2022, at 1:33, mailmate--- via mailmate wrote:
> How can I archive mail from IMAP mailboxes to somewhere else free so
I don’t exceed my free storage allocation in the mail server?
Either
```
Message > Move to mailbox…
```
and put them into another IMAP account. Or
```
Commands >
> How can I archive mail from IMAP mailboxes to somewhere else free so I don’t
> exceed my free storage allocation in the mail server?
Either
```
Message > Move to mailbox…
```
and put them into another IMAP account. Or
```
Commands > Export > …
```
to store the Emails on your local storage.
Julian,
Don’t know how much that is, but what I do is save up my archived mail (and
mail sent and received per account) in a separate folder (not Archive default)
for each of my 8 accounts. Then when the particular server’s storage is full or
80% more or less, save onto my local drive
How can I archive mail from IMAP mailboxes to somewhere else free so I don’t
exceed my free storage allocation in the mail server?
Julian Thomas
jtjtj...@gmail.com
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