Wols Lists wrote: > On 03/08/2024 18:15, Dale wrote: >> Well, what I'd like to do, install a email program that fetches the >> emails and then stores them on my system. Then I can have >> Thunderbird or any other email program connect to that and view, >> create, send or whatever emails. Thing is, setting up the first >> program is complicated. It is a bit over my head. From what I've >> read, it is pretty picky too. It has to be fairly perfect or things >> don't work. I'd need a seriously good how to to even get started. It >> could turn into another long thread like that goofy monitor. :/ > > That's basically fetchmail. Although I gather that's now > abandonware-ish. There is a successor iirc, but I stopped using it > because it broke... > > If you can then get that into Dovecot ... > > My current setup is I have dovecot set up, then whenever I connect > (with thunderbird) I have bulk rules that just move everything across > from the internet into dovecot. > > Cheers, > Wol > >
I'll be honest, I don't know for sure what I would need to do what I want to do. The basics from my understanding. I'd have some software, dovecot sounds familiar, that fetches my email which is then stored on my computer, in /var somewhere I think. Once that is done, I could use Thunderbird, Kmail or whatever to access/download the emails from and send emails, through dovecot or something I guess. Basically, there is a server type software between say Kmail and say Gmail. That software handles fetching and sending. That way I have copies no matter what I use to view them with. Someone mentioned a long time ago that doing it this way would allow me to switch email programs and not lose any emails. Keep in mind, I keep most emails for good. I may have the first email I ever sent and received here somewhere. I also sort emails into sub directories. Example. All gentoo-user emails go into a folder named gentoo-user. I have similar filters for other things like banking, websites I buy from etc. I'd like to keep those. I think someone mentioned IMAP or something at one point???? I've read about people pulling their hair out trying to set up email software and it sounds like a nightmare and they know more about it than I do. I'd like to do this but I'd need a good howto. I figure the first step, find a new email provider. Then find out what software works best with it. I so want to get away from gmail. Dale :-) :-)
