Mail in a Box - Hackdot

Re:Mail in a Box by dvko on Monday November 25, 2019 @02:22PM (#21631718)

I've been running Mailinabox since late 2016 and have experienced 0 issues with downtime or my emails being flagged as spam. It did take a few weeks to train SpamAssassin to properly flag incoming email as spam but that worked very well and it. just. works. nowadays.

Recently I closed down my lingering Gmail account and used imapsync to copy over all my email and contacts to my Mailinabox.

I've also moved it to a different VPS provider once without any issues. Setup mailinabox on new server, close ports on old server, create final back-up, import back-up, switch DNS, done. 0 emails missed.

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Re:Mail in a Box by thelittleone on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:05PM (#21633324)

I’ve tried getting out of gmail a few times with various sync tools which all seemed to fail before completion. I’m curious if it’s a mailbox size issue, or perhaps scripts have matured since I last tried (2 years ago). Any idea how many emails you synced over?

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Re:Mail in a Box by dvko on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @02:55AM (#21636375)

Close to 20.000 emails, ~4.5 GB in size. Tried using Google's data takeout first, but imapsync worked way better (while slower).

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Re:Mail in a Box by thelittleone on Thursday November 28, 2019 @08:19PM (#21661253)

Thank you, that’s about the same size as my account. I struggled with Google’s takeout also. Going to make the move and feeling pretty good about it.

Did you do anything to migrate accounts signed up using the gmail?

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