I use thunderbird connected to my normal mail account and the dovecot server to transfer mail archives between both.
I used to backup my mail to the “Local folders” account in thunderbird; that also works. It’s more for the convenience of having “everything on the server” and having access to my mail archive from a laptop and a desktop. It’s also easier to backup and restore for me.
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If you need it for this, and only this, the setup is actually very simple, you just need an IMAP server like dovecot https://github.com/nodiscc/xsrv/tree/master/roles/mail_dovecot
being extremely lazy, you can use Thunderbird
I use thunderbird connected to my normal mail account and the dovecot server to transfer mail archives between both.
I used to backup my mail to the “Local folders” account in thunderbird; that also works. It’s more for the convenience of having “everything on the server” and having access to my mail archive from a laptop and a desktop. It’s also easier to backup and restore for me.
That sounds like what I want! Thanks! 🙏
I was thinking of using it for local email from other self-hosted services, but I am getting too old to set it up