Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here use Proton email service?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Wol wrote:
> On 02/10/2024 19:47, Dale wrote:
>> Well, I'm not really wanting to do my own email server.  In a way,
>> I'd like to have it so that everything is fetched, stored on my
>> system and then I can use any email software I want, Seamonkey,
>> Thunderbird, Mutt, Kmail or whatever, without losing a single email. 
>> Thing is, even that sounds like more than I care to chew on.  If
>> someone would share configs, editing private info of course, and I
>> could just drop those in and edit with my private info, I might
>> consider it.  Thing is, I'm nervous about doing even that.  Be my
>> luck, I'd screw up something and delete every email I've ever got. 
>> :/   It would be nice tho to have a program fetch my emails and then
>> I can switch email software anytime without losing anything at all.
>
> This is my setup.
>
> I think I've talked about this before, but just emerge and set up
> dovecot.
>
> Make sure you set everything up in the local config file - look at the
> global file that comes with dovecot, and at the end you'll see a
> pointer to a non-existent local file. Set that up, and then make sure
> your email client can see it. Move a couple of emails across and make
> sure they're safe in dovecot.
>
> Then you just set up a rule on your internet provider's inbox, that
> moves emails across to dovecot, and everything is local on your
> system. Obviously, they'll stay on the internet provider's setup until
> they expire, but they're on your system, they can be backed up, and
> they'll not be on the internet to be mined or broken into or whatever
> for long.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
>


I think we tried this and I couldn't get it to work and gave up on it. 
It's been a while back tho.  From my understanding, it is supposed to be
simple but simple doesn't always mean I can do it.  LOL  Email providers
always changing things doesn't help either. 

Would this also work if I moved to Proton or something similar? 

Dale

:-)  :-)