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   JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 22:08:08 JST JP Mens

   I needed a throwaway SMTP and IMAP server and chanced upon Greenmail: an open source, suite of email servers for testing purposes. https://greenmail-mail-test.github.io/greenmail/

   I launch it thusly and have an SMTP and IMAP server with in-core storage.

   java -Dgreenmail.smtp.hostname=127.0.0.1 -Dgreenmail.smtp.port=3025 -Dgreenmail.imap.hostname=127.0.0.1 -Dgreenmail.imap.port=3143 -Dgreenmail.imaps.hostname=127.0.0.1 -jar greenmail-standalone-1.6.14.jar

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 22:08:03 JST feld

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     • haerench
     archiveopteryx.org
     
     Tiny service written in C, just need Postgres. IMAP, POP, and SMTP
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     JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 22:08:05 JST JP Mens

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     @haerench yeah, I stopped reading at 'docker'.

     I know many systems which have Java installed but not Docker. :)

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     haerench (haerench@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 22:08:08 JST haerench

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     @jpmens there is also https://mailu.io/2.0/index.html ; haven't tried it myself (yet)

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 22:46:09 JST feld

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     • haerench
     oops, my mistake :)
     
     really love that software, hope I don't have to maintain it until I die... perfect solution for email archiving. Fixes noncompliant emails if it encounters them (unless GPG/PGP) and deduplicates your mail too
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     JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 22:46:10 JST JP Mens

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     • haerench

     @feld written in C++, but thanks.

     @haerench

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 23:15:45 JST feld

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     • haerench
     There isn't any other software on the planet for email that guarantees that you could look at the RFCs 50 years from now, write code in the new hip language to those exact specifications, and successfully read all your mail without encountering errors.
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     JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 23:15:46 JST JP Mens

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     • haerench

     @feld

     for actual long-term archival I'd prefer fewer moving parts, i.e. ditch the database and use plain files.

     But that's just me.

     @haerench

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 23:23:23 JST feld

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     good luck deciphering mime encoded parts, file attachments, etc though
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     JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 23:23:24 JST JP Mens

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     • haerench

     @feld

     cat(1)

     @haerench

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     JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 02:54:50 JST JP Mens

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     • haerench

     @feld

     the point is: fewer moving parts.

     cat(1) was supposed to be a joke but also to illustrate that a file system is fine for long-term storage of mail (e.g with attachments extracted into their own directories ,etc.)

     @haerench

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