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From: Sergey Matveev <stargrave@stargrave•org>
To: nncp-devel@lists.cypherpunks.ru
Subject: Re: NNCP proxy for Internet mail providers?
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 10:47:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXpVu4Jf5HSt68hM@stargrave.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211028053337.GA8915@ma.sdf.org>
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*** tidux@sdf•org [2021-10-28 05:33]:
>The use case is basically "IMAP server as remote backups" where even if
>your laptop gets run over by a truck you can still re-download all your
>mail from the server.
Personally I use Postfix'es "always_bcc" feature to make a copy of all
passing through correspondence, copying/backuping it separately. This is
for the case when I accidentally loose my main server/laptop. I can Bcc
to another server, storing all correspondence in single mbox/maildir.
They can be easily rsync-ed. In my opinion IMAP is a huge over engineering
and lack of simplicity and flexibility, if all you need is just a
storage, mainly append-only as a backup. However I am possibly far from
most user's use-cases related to email, because I have never ever used
IMAP at all, except for POP3 to download and remove correspondence from
public mail servers.
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Sergey Matveev (http://www.stargrave.org/)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-28 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-28 3:46 NNCP proxy for Internet mail providers? Koushik Roy
2021-10-28 5:33 ` tidux
2021-10-28 7:47 ` Sergey Matveev [this message]
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2021-10-26 23:25 tidux
2021-10-27 2:18 ` John Goerzen
2021-10-27 2:39 ` John Goerzen
2021-10-27 3:03 ` tidux
2021-10-27 8:19 ` Sergey Matveev