Yup. There’s some confusion about what a mail server’s purpose is here.
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catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I don’t think you want a mail server, you want a mail archive. A quick google search for “selfhosted email archive” shows a number of good leads.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 months ago
megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I think that that is right that I fundamentally want an archive, not what a normal mail server provides. Part of my thought on looking at mail servers is that those would integrate directly with whatever other front-end/client that I’d normally use, whereas an archive maybe would not.
And regarding archive-specific stuff, I am seeing some things on a search, but I guess i’m wondering if folks here have any recommendations. When I look at , for example, nothing comes up for email archive, just for email servers. That, plus what I see when searching, makes me think that the archive-specific stuff is either oriented to business or oriented to a CLI (like NotMuch, which was mentioned in the discussion here and does look cool).