A very interesting video about the Thunderbird Project successful donation process and how KDE can improve them by following their step.
A very interesting video about the Thunderbird Project successful donation process and how KDE can improve them by following their step.
I pull all my email locally and only leave the last few weeks on the servers. I have all my email (going back 20 years) available locally and also backed up safe. If an email provider goes tits up, or is acquired, or starts misbehaving, I can have my mailboxes somewhere else within the hour and not lose anything.
I go one step further and host my own mail server so I can access my mail archive from all my devices on the fly. In Thunderbird it’s easy to set all the accounts “Archive”-folder to folders on my own server - Archive button truly archives the e-mails in my archive, not just a folder on their server.
I should do that too at some point. I’m using Claws Mail not Thunderbird, which stores each message in its own file.
First step is to find an IMAP server that won’t complain that the format is not-quite-maildir, and also not balk that they’re read-only.
Looks like yer gonna be doing local backups for a while there, fren.
Worst case scenario I’ll write my own. Can’t be too hard to put together a simple IMAP server that only works read-only to list folders and read messages.