After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel

Re:After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have... by RunningDroid on Sunday September 04, 2022 @03:31PM (#32716818)

> You can also even keep Gmail as your MX server! Just move messages off of it as soon as they arrive. It's just a mailbox, after all

Do you have more information about this?

I've been looking to do something similar so that I can have my mail sorted into folders without setting up the same rules on multiple clients. (Gmail's sorting doesn't seem to support some of the sorting I'm currently doing in Thunderbird)

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Re:After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have... by iam-TJ on Sunday September 04, 2022 @06:14PM (#32718232)

I've been hosting and operating my own MTA MX with Postfix since 2005. I have Postfix set to use "MailDir" format storage (one file per email) and then use Procmail filters to direct emails into per-sender or per-topic specific folders when they arrive on the server - nothing needed to be done in the email client. Dovecot provides the IMAP4 client interface. Thunderbird connects via IMAP4.

Each domain has its own user home directory so for each there is a /home/${domain_name}/Maildir/ directory as the base for storing emails, and each IMAP4 folder has an associated directory. Snippet:

  $ ls -1da  Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux*
  Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux
  Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.LinuxContainers
  Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux.drbd
  Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux.kernel
  Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux.linaro.dev
  Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux.linux-i2c
  Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux.linux-input
  Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux.linux-pci
  Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux.linux-usb

Here's an extended snippet example from $HOME/.procmailrc that directs deliveries into the correct directory (IMAP4 folder):

  :0H
  * ^List-id: .*linux-usb\.vger\.kernel\.org
  $HOME/Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux.linux-usb/
  
  :0H
  * ^List-id: .*linux-wireless\.vger\.kernel\.org
  $HOME/Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux.linux-wireless/
  
  :0H
  * ^List-id: .*yaffs\.lists\.aleph1\.co\.uk
  $HOME/Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux.yaffs/

  :0H
  * ^List-id: .*util-linux\.vger\.kernel\.org
  $HOME/Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux.util-linux/


  ### LinuxContainers
  :0H
  * ^List-id: .*lxc-devel\.lists\.linuxcontainers\.org
  $HOME/Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.LinuxContainers/

  ### Linaro
  
  :0H
  * ^List-id:.*linaro-dev\.lists\.linaro\.org
  $HOME/Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux.linaro.dev/

  :0H
  * ^List-id:.*linaro-kernel\.lists\.linaro\.org
  $HOME/Maildir/.Technology.FOSS.Projects.Linux.linaro.kernel/

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