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i have a few mbox files that i'd like to be able to search from any device - but not to send or receive email. is there a go-to lightweight self-hosted service for this?

thank you!

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[–] raffomania 5 points 1 year ago

Have you looked into notmuch?

[–] conrad82 4 points 1 year ago

I ended up with installing a dovecot IMAP server that i can connect to from any email client. but no smtp to send emails

Then you connect to the imap server from the email client and search that way

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I am also interested in this, my workaround is loading the emails via imap on gmail but i don't really like it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'd either try loading them into elastic search as a document per email... alternatively, something like mairix or even Thunderbird should do it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

for now i've just installed mairix and will search that via ssh, i'll look into all the other suggestions when i have more time, thanks everyone :D

[–] vegetaaaaaaa 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IMAP server like dovecot https://lemmy.world/comment/813653

Access it from thunderbird or a dedicated web interface (still can't find a good one after all these years)