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!

  • Coelacanthus@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 day ago
    • You can use imapsync to sync all you mails from GMail to your new email provider if you still use email.
    • If you no longer use email, Piler is a bit heavy but well-working solution.
    • Notmuch is much lightweight but has no web UI, but if it require you install a (may be TUI) software, why not just install a mail client like Thunderbird and then just use its local mail feature to index the mbox?
      • Coelacanthus@infosec.pubEnglish
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        19 hours ago

        if you no longer use email

        What

        I indeed have some friends who stop using email to communite with other people (Fortornately, their employer use their own communication software so they won’t lose job because of this.) because some horrible experience like spam, although they still use email for managing online accounts.