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E-mail archive browser for gmail takeout files (.mbox) (piefed.ca)
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I have started moving away from gmail and have started exporting my older e-mails via the takeout option. This generates .mbox files. I don't really use any e-mail clients on my computer and do most of my e-mailing on my phone, so I don't have a way of viewing/searching those files.

Therefore I was wondering if there is any selfhosted option for some kind of e-mail archive/viewer with decent search function that anyone can recommend? Specifically something capable of handling those .mbox files. I found a few projects that sounded promising, but they seemed either dead, weren't setup for selfhosting or could only connect directly to the mailboxes. So I thought I'd ask here if anyone has experience with this, maybe some recommendations?

Also open to alternative approaches what to do with those files. I just would like to delete these mails from gmail entirely, but that requires I can search them with as much ease as I can on gmail with a local option.

Thanks!

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[–] fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Alternative approach: I imported the mails to my new mail hoster and just archived the mbox files just in case. Can be done by installing a mail client temporarily to upload or some mail hosters provide an option to import from gmail (in my case that was proton)

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

If I had an e-mail provider I'd be confident staying with for the next few decades, sure. But I don't feel confident about it and it would just move my problem with old gmail e-mails to the next provider.

And the next provider may not have a "takeout" system. Since Proton has encryption you have to use their client? I remember hearing about Proton bridge to connect to other clients, and it was supposedly clunky.

[–] fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 22 hours ago

You don’t have to use their client (this is why I choose them over tuta) they provide a imap bridge (separate program to be installed locally). Works fine for me for the last few years. Just have to use their client on mobile but it works well enough.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub -3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

(in my case that was proton)

Doesn't that fund Trump?

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, but the founder naively praised Trump for an executive branch nomination he thought would play out in his favor. I don't think it was a month later when Trump made it obvious he was just going to sell his entire administration to the big powerful tech bros. The Proton founder should have known better and just looked like an idiot, or worse a supporter, for praising Trump.

[–] fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I think the post was very naive but not actually a “I endorse everything what trump does” post. No one can know for sure but alternatives to proton are sparse and I didn’t see anything else like that after.