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mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Using your own domain definitely makes it easy to get back up by just switching providers. But what about all your historical emails? If your original provider goes poof, what’s the plan? I connect via IMAP, so all my emails are stored on the provider’s servers, right? Or do email apps keep local copies, too?

Are there backup services for emails? I seem to recall Outlook having some kind of archive feature (I haven’t used outlook in decades), but I think I remember it was only recoverable in outlook and even then, it was a pain to search for a particular email.

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hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The proper email programs have an option somewhere in the settings to either store a copy of the mailbox on the computer, or not do it. I'm pretty sure that's in Thunderbird, Evolution, etx. I'm not sure about Outlook.

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- disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You can create an archive of your emails using Mail in MacOS also.
  
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sandalbucket@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
For historic emails, you could setup a forwarding rule from the primary to the backup. This would need to be done in advance of course

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scsi@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If you have access to some sort of basic Linux system (cloud server, local server whatever works for you) you can run a program on a timer such as isync.sourceforge.io (Debian package: isync) which reads email from one source and clones it to another. Be careful and run it in a security context that meets your needs (I use a local laptop w/encryption at home that runs headless 24/7, think raspberry Pi mode).

This includes IMAP (1) -> IMAP (2) as well as IMAP -> Local and so on; as with any app you’ll need to spend a bit learning how to build the optimum config file for your needs, but once you get it going it’s truly a “set and forget” little widget. Use an on-fail service like healthchecks.io in your wrapper script to get notified on error, then go about your life.

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- mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Thanks, @scsi@lemm.ee!
  
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