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App that syncs email accounts? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by 3dmvr@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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So all of these apps like gmail, outlook, etc. let me login to all of my websites different emails but none of them seem to sync across devices. Is there an app that lets me login to all my inboxes once and then sync that logininfo across pc, iphone, and android?

Right now I have to manually add all the email accounts in to each device, none of the mobile apps sync to their pc counterparts.

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[โ€“] suzune@ani.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I sync my emails using a Dovecot IMAP server on my home server. I fetch emails from all my accounts with fetchmail and sort them into the right folders using Sieve. They get indexed and are searchable (ultra fast!).

225000 emails in 13 GB (ZFS; uncompressed 18 GB).

[โ€“] nis@feddit.dk 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ive been looking for something like this. Please elaborate ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] suzune@ani.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Basically what I said. Dovecot can be installed on every Linux or BSD system. You'll need Pideonhole and FTS Flatcurve as extensions.

When you install fetchmail, you can let it connect to all your IMAP or POP3 servers. Each process will deliver your mail instantly to your own Dovecot server.

You'll also need a certificate for Dovecot. This can be solved using Letsencrypt.

You can use any mail client you want. I use Fairemail on Android. On desktop and notebooks it's Thunderbird.

[โ€“] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So when you login all your inboxes show up under one account and you don't have to login multiple?

[โ€“] suzune@ani.social 1 points 2 years ago

With an IMAP server you have the power to serve your own emails. fetchmail will deliver them constantly to this place. You have all emails in one place and you login just to your own server.

[โ€“] beautiful_orca@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had dovecot running unencrypted IMAP via Tailscale VPN, but with dovecot version 2.4.0 it did not accept my configuration anymore. can you share an easy example?
I was thinking of switching to mailcow so i do not have to configure dovecot myself...

[โ€“] beautiful_orca@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This post explains it, but it is still too complicated for me to figure out: https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html

[โ€“] suzune@ani.social 1 points 2 years ago

My Dovecot is still 2.3.21. It's the most recent package. But you're right the update doesn't look trivial.