Thank you... quite helpful. I am trying to get dovecot installed now.
Even it's 'quick' configuration is complicated so it may take a few days
to get it going but the website and the .conf files are detailed. I'll
post when I get it going...
R
On 8 Jul 2014, at 10:06, Brad Knowles wrote:
On Jul 8, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Fredrik Jonsson <f...@xdeb.org> wrote:
3. Any advice on what I can do with my 20GB of offline mail messages
stored by Apple Mail?
You can get an e-mail provider that allow you to store that mush or
set up a local IMAP server. I do the later and it works really well
but it is some work to set up and maintain.
One advantage to doing it this way is that you can set up simple
standard cron jobs to go in and archive messages from the Internet
IMAP server to your local IMAP server, so that you only keep messages
below a certain age on the "public" server and everything else is 100%
private.
If you set up jobs on the local server to copy down all the remote
messages as soon as they come in, then you can use your IMAP client to
interact exclusively with your local IMAP server, and then that will
be much, much faster. And these jobs to copy down messages from the
remote server could potentially operate on other ports, via private
VPNs, or tunneled over ssh, so that even if you're in a place where
you can't normally access your remote e-mail, you could still get that
copied down to your local server. Once the messages are copied down
to the local server, you can purge them from the remote server at your
convenience.
Running dovecot as a local only IMAP server on OS X
<https://xdeb.org/node/1607>
Of course, I haven't actually done this yet, but I've been meaning to
do so for a long time.
Maybe this thread will be the impetus I need to make this happen.
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