Thanks for going to the effort to type all that up.... I looked at Claws the other day Read many reviews on it.
I hate IMAP, and don’t allow the people who have email accounts on my server to use it either. I suppose it has value to government entities, and for businesses that are legally required to keep such records, but to me, it is like buying gold and then letting the seller store it for you.
“I hate IMAP, and don’t allow the people who have email accounts on my server to use it either. I suppose it has value to government entities, and for businesses that are legally required to keep such records, but to me, it is like buying gold and then letting the seller store it for you.”
That’s why I run our Dovecot IMAP server on our own *local* machine. None of our mail *stays* on our Postfix server at our rented virtual machine for more than a minute or so. It is transferred immediately to our local Dovecot and removed from the non-local Postfix machine. Thus there is no record of the mail contents there. (We don’t run the Postfix locally because we’d need a static IPv4 address, on fiber, with port 25 etc. unblocked, and that would get expensive, or maybe even impossible.)
So, do you “hate IMAP” because mail would be stored non-locally (in the traditional setup), analogous to “having the seller store the gold”? If so, you might consider our approach. It not only provides easier access, it also allows other important files to be backed up from a single, multi-purpose server which is *local* and, in our case, runs Samba for general file serving.