Hello all, i am not sure if plain webmail is the right category for what i’m looking for.

I already have a mail server running in a hosting VPS that has been running for years and handles sending and receiving emails without issues or being flagged as spam, what I’m trying to accomplish is:

  • Handling the storage of very old and large mailboxes (imap 20gb+) to my local server since my VPS is runing out of space.
  • Continue using the VPS email server to receive/send emails. Since i’m not at all interested in selfhosting the email server and dealing with all those issues.
  • Multiuser since several family members have the same issue.
  • Selfhosted so we can check/send email from any device/mobile.

Something that works similar (but obviously not selfhosted) is adding a POP3 account to Gmail/Outlook/etc and then adding the “send mail as” SMTP credentials of the server. I would like to replicate the same but selfhosted if possible.

Is there anything that works like this?

  • Redux28OPBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    You may be correct and it looks like this might be the cleanest solution to my problem.

    I could even try to mount my local storage using wireguard and NFS. But I imagine network issues or downtime while receiving mails could mean big trouble, but that’s only an issue if I selfhost the storage and not pay for third party storage.

    In my mind i was so sure that something already existed that was both a webmail client and also supported local storage of email lol, for some reason still it just makes sense to me.