I just checked out Posteo and Purelymail but one question lingers… How do I get all my emails out of their servers immediately as I get them and into a centrally accessible server that I can use to search thru my email from any device and accumulate more than just 3gb or 4gb or 15gb or whatever the next service’s limitations might be?

The reason I shouldn’t serve my own is because we have blackouts during storms so if I was traveling I wouldn’t be able to access things that would require email confirmation as a 2nd factor. That’s one reason for example.

But yeah I would like to have many devices be able to access the same emails thru a webmail client.

Hell is other people. My wife opens her new phone and says! Hey why am I running out of space already! See my gmail says I got no more space!

I tried syncthing and it was great for a while. Now I got an rsync script that I gotta run from time to time.

But wouldn’t it be great if The email just came off the bastards and into my own central server instead? That’s what I’ve been trying hard to do. I’m just not hitting the ball on this one. Mailcow, mailserver, stalwart, and a good other bunch. I always just get stuck in some part of the installation or end up with issues sending or receiving. But thinking about it, if I have issues, she’s going to have issues. So it’s not even worth it.

Sounds like a deal to me.

Yes exactly. For me, I could figure it out given enough weekends. But screw that. For my wife, my kids, my mom and dad, those things are hyroglyphics.

I did try this. It’s pretty easy up to the point where you need to do SSL or connect to Gmail.

To go to IMAP with GMAIL now you have to register as a Developer, you have to create a project and then create a key for that project once those things are created??? Where do they go? Heavens knows.

All of these, even if you get them to work today, Google can just break them tomorrow and you won’t know until maybe a few days without emails have passed?

I do have one yeah. I’ll have to take a look.

Yeah ok maybe I just need to pay for a VPS.

I was told about this one but never actually tried it. I am more hellbent on setting up my own server so I never have to migrate from anywhere.

That’s the first thing I tried. I could receive emails but not send. Maybe I’ll give that thing one more go.

I gave their self-hosted version a go and got stuck with the gmail connection. For Auth2.0 they’ve built some new bullshit. I think I gotta create an app to pretend I’m a dev, then use that app and password to allow it on my security settings… Google is such a bunch of shit assholes. Fuck Google! With a splintered rusty corrugate hose. Assholes. Who is gonna do that? Nobody. It’s just a tiny bit more than whatever technical knowledge I’m willing to spend cells on. Nah, I’m done.

I want to try stalwart on a vps. But I fail to make it work from my pc.

Yeah, I’m going to keep using it for that. Just not any personal communication. It’s just bullshit in, and bullshit out. Ran out of space? Just delete bullshit. School needs an email? Okay here’s another junk email send your bullshit into it, I don’t care. Like that. There is nothing in the storage that I need if I don’t put anything into it.

This but a Docker or Podman pod where you can have it download your emails and allow you to send emails but thru the web so you can see your emails at work or on your phone.

I’ve using Joplin for more than a year now and it’s awesome.

Like that?

Its made up! The windows people are working on windows 13 the return of the sith. Windows 13 will be forcefully implemented into our brain. We’ll be fed raisin bran and function as processing units for big AI.

Your new bike version comes with one pedal only. You see the problem?

Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time.

It’s features that worked fine before and now they don’t. So enshittification.

There are no settings to bring it back to sanity! I used to think surely there was something I could do! But nah!