This is the best solution.
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curbstickle_lw@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My suggestion would be to stand up a mail server (that doesn’t really do anything) and bring your mail over there. Then add the account on your phone, and you’ve got email now searchable like any other.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Would that be simple to do though? Hope I am not starting yet another discussion thread about selfhosting e-mail, I know there are different views how hard/easy it is. I guess here its restricted to just the viewing part, which is maybe the easier bit.
Downside I see for this, I’d like to also be able to access this on my computer, where I use webmail only. So I got no client set up. Yes, can of course do this just for that use case, but its again something extra I don’t need otherwise. Also, on the phone I use Thunderbird, it seems to have an atrocious search function. So that wouldn’t feel great to use either.
But definitely a valid idea I didn’t consider, thanks!
curbstickle_lw@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The hard part is making sure your email server works with others.
Standing up an email server that is otherwise inactive aside from login? Perfectly easy, no send involved.
mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
dovecot/dovecot and solr should do the trick. At least they do for me.