Docker email server to host mail archive
from giddy@aussie.zone to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 26 Jun 10:50
https://aussie.zone/post/11105556
from giddy@aussie.zone to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 26 Jun 10:50
https://aussie.zone/post/11105556
Hey all,
I have given up hope of hosting my own mail server but was hoping for one that would serve as an archive -
- downloads new emails via IMAP from my mail provider on a regular basis
- allows my mail clients to connect via IMAP to view and search emails
Any suggestions for a docker solution for this?
Thanks
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Paperless-ngx might be worth a look. Probably overkill if you just want to store mails but great for general purpose document management.
github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver should be able to do it.
if i remember this in 6 weeks i’ll check the setup at work.
I think imapsync will fulfill your needs.
dovecot will be able to handle this part. This is what I use as a mail archive (once a year, archive all mail from the previous year from various mailboxes to my self-hosted dovecot instance). I wrote this ansible role for it.
As others recommended,
imapsync
should be able to handle that part.These tools are simple enough to install and manage (one package, one config file), Docker is not needed. If you really need it to fit into your docker-based setup, build and maintain your own images.
Piggybacking on this question: any solution that provides really good indexing on those local mails, for fast wildcard searching?
I can’t give direct experience here, but this is exactly the use case I’ve been meaning to spin up mailpiler for: www.mailpiler.org. One of these days that will rise to the top of the priority list.
I use dovecot for this. And thunderbird to actually move/archive the emails. I use caddy for many of my services, so I have pointed dovecot to caddys certificates (for “my.domain”), since it manages certificates through let’s encrypt. I had a plan to install postfix for sending internal emails from my self-hosted services, but it seemed like a bit of configuration and I got busy with other stuff
I made an excerpt from my docker-compose.yml, but you probably have to figure out some things on your own
contents of ./dovecot folder:
contents of dovecot.conf (I think I searched online to find a good example, I don’t remember where from…)