Mailclient with POP3 support?

[murgero]

@necrevistonnezr said in Mailclient with POP3 support?:

@murgero No, it doesn't. Mailpile is one of the few web mail clients that does.

Right... Don't know if you saw the edit i made literal minutes after posting....?

[murgero]

@fbartels said in Mailclient with POP3 support?:

When you use something like Roundcube I would not call this a "mail client", it's a "webmail frontend".

This is called a mail client lol

[necrevistonnezr]

@murgero said in Mailclient with POP3 support?:

@necrevistonnezr said in Mailclient with POP3 support?:

@murgero No, it doesn't. Mailpile is one of the few web mail clients that does.

Right... Don't know if you saw the edit i made literal minutes after posting....?

Yes, sorry!

Would it at least be possible to import my existing mails into Roundcube or Rainloop (e.g. via Thunderbird) and configure the mail client to sent e-mails under my current mail address from my current mail provider (using the smtp of my current mail provider)?

[girish]

It's possible to import using a tool like imapsync - https://imapsync.lamiral.info/dist/ . This does require some time and effort to understand the tool and how to import but you can search for some online tutorials. I have used it before to import my own mails from gmail to Cloudron about 2 years ago.

As a heads up, if you have lots of emails in gmail, it can take up to a day to import since the gmail imap download access is rate limited!

[thetomester13]

@necrevistonnezr I actually wrote a post about migrating email hosts using the imapsync tool that girish recommended, you can check it out here. Note that my post is a bit more extensive as I also migrated registrars and had other active emails there that weren't mine, so yours should hopefully be a bit easier than the whole tutorial!

[necrevistonnezr]

Could we re-visit the idea to include fetchmail / pop3 support in the mail stack?
It would allow users to move to a self-hosted Cloudron but keep current mail addresses alive as a „shell“ without leaving mails on the old provider‘s server for analysis / AI training (looking at you, Google, for example)….

[girish]

Is there any webmail client that support pop3? I think fetchmail is a desktop app (Afaict)

[necrevistonnezr]

Sorry, I did not mean a webmail client but built-in fetching of mails and sorting such mail into the cloudron mailboxes.
(BTW: https://www.fetchmail.info/ is not a desktop app?)

[girish]

I misunderstood! Got it, we have to implement some sort of POP fetcher service to work with external mail boxes.

[necrevistonnezr]

@girish Yes, that's what I meant - that would be awesome!