What's your mail archiving system?

MichaelCeeMichaelCee ModeratorHosting ProviderOGServices Provider
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Heyoooo, as per the title.

I have some old iCloud accounts I am going to archive offline and delete in the future. What's your system for archiving look like? Raw files? Big ol export from Roundcube? Do you store it on a NAS or on cloud storage? Do you have 500GB of chickens being snooped on by CharityHost? (reference from ogf.. don't worry)

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  • bingobangobongobingobangobongo Hosting Provider

    Just keep moving it around forever!! My iCloud account has so much spam from over the years, that I gave up on it.

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  • MichaelCeeMichaelCee ModeratorHosting ProviderOGServices Provider

    @bingobangobongo said:
    Just keep moving it around forever!! My iCloud account has so much spam from over the years, that I gave up on it.

    I only made mine in 2021, but for some reason moved to a new one in 2023, then merged everything over at MXroute.

    It's getting a lot of spam right now and there's little to no active services left on it so.. time to say goodbye!

    I did move the emails over.. I just want to archive them now.

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  • FrankZFrankZ ModeratorOGRetired
    edited March 30

    25+ years of mail archives are on three different hard drives stored locally in fireproof safes, in three different locations.
    Hard drives get changed every two to three years.
    I've always been a bit paranoid about email so I have never used publicly available services for inbound mail storage or mail archives. All mail is stored locally.

    Just a suggestion, to reduce spam use a different email address for everything place you need to enter an email address. Then just "no such user" that email address when you start getting spam sent to it. It also lets you know who is giving away your info.

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  • bdlbdl OG
    edited March 30

    imapsync to a (locally hosted) second mail service because I'm lazy :) and then i set up backups on that second mail server

    going to switch back to a imap->localstore type backup system (which I've used in the past - offlineimap) when I get some time (eg: https://isync.sourceforge.io/, https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap3, https://github.com/rcarmo/imapbackup)

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  • dgc1980dgc1980
    edited March 30

    I run multiple imap servers and sync to them, two remotely, one locally. Mailu is a easy to setup docker container for it.

    sync from original > remote 1 then remote 1 > remote 2 & local

    @FrankZ said: Just a suggestion, to reduce spam use a different email address for everything place you need to enter an email address. Then just "no such user" that email address when you start getting spam sent to it. It also lets you know who is giving away your info.

    I use Addy.io (previously AnonAddy) for this, spin up a new alias per site, disable it when I no longer need it

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  • ahnlakahnlak

    Thunderbird has it all locally, and those files end up in regular backups. For new or unproven providers, I also have a spare MXRoute account that it gets imapsync'd to :-)

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  • angstromangstrom OG

    "mail archiving system"?

    (I'm waiting for someone to say that real women and men live in the moment -- ain't got no time or need for a mail archiving system =) )

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  • MichaelCeeMichaelCee ModeratorHosting ProviderOGServices Provider

    @dgc1980 said:
    I run multiple imap servers and sync to them, two remotely, one locally. Mailu is a easy to setup docker container for it.

    sync from original > remote 1 then remote 1 > remote 2 & local

    @FrankZ said: Just a suggestion, to reduce spam use a different email address for everything place you need to enter an email address. Then just "no such user" that email address when you start getting spam sent to it. It also lets you know who is giving away your info.

    I use Addy.io (previously AnonAddy) for this, spin up a new alias per site, disable it when I no longer need it

    During my time using iCloud, I used their hide my email system for most.

    Michael from DragonWebHost & OnePoundEmail

  • adlyadly

    Encrypted PDF-A export of each email message stored in folders/database. 🥸

  • AuroraZeroAuroraZero Hosting ProviderRetired

    @FrankZ said:
    25+ years of mail archives are on three different hard drives stored locally in fireproof safes, in three different locations.
    Hard drives get changed every two to three years.
    I've always been a bit paranoid about email so I have never used publicly available services for inbound mail storage or mail archives. All mail is stored locally.

    Just a suggestion, to reduce spam use a different email address for everything place you need to enter an email address. Then just "no such user" that email address when you start getting spam sent to it. It also lets you know who is giving away your info.

    Crypto keys on these as well?

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