I’m planning to migrate my email to a different provider, but they don’t give much storage, so I was wondering what people would recommend for this kind of setup: basically I’d like to use the new provider as something like a relay. I’d want them to only store an email or two at a time and have some kind of self hosted solution that just grabs the emails from the provider and stores them after deleting them off the provider so it’s never storing my entire email history, and also keeps my sent emails somewhere so that I have a copy of it. Ideally I’d wanna be able to set this up with a mail client like NextCloud’s.
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I use them with neomutt for years, and am happy with it.
Agree about the Nextcloud client, but it’s easy enough to replace it with the SnappyMail plug in which works a treat.
Wow thanks for the very detailed info! I’ll look into all of these. I read your post about the NC webmail and yeah I might just go for RoundCube lol. I’ve had performance issues with the file part of NC but it just works better for me than other solutions so I figured I may as well just tack it on but seems I’ll have more performance/resource concerns if I do.
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That sounds like POP3.
Unlike IMAP, where your inbox lives on the mail server, POP stores the messages only until you download them.
So you should be able to look for a provider that allows you to connect with POP3 and set your client up to fetch them periodically.
The older POP3 mail protocol downloads and deletes emails from the mailbox to your local program so if you can get next cloud’s to use that as a mail source it will start to work the way you want.
