I like using thunderbird to have all my emails in the same place, in a unified inbox. This doesn't allow me to access my inbox on my phone etc though, so I'm looking for a FOSS way to solve this problem.

My idea would be to selfhost a website, like a webmail site, that has the functionality of connecting to different mail servers and unifying the inbox to get all my mail in the same place. Should be accessible by android phones and iPads.

Is there a better way to do this? Maybe with nextcloud? If anyone has an idea, let me know.

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[–] scooby007@feddit.uk 15 points 8 months ago

K-9 mail app on android has a unified inbox. This is a FOSS app and part of thunderbird now.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Cypht can do that and can be installed via Yunohost for example on a Raspberry Pi or rented VPS.

[–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

Sounds very good. I do have a vps, so I'll try it.

[–] MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hmm sounds like a Webmail client, like Roundcube. Luckily (at least from my point of view) it has no 'unified inbox', but you can have as many mail accounts you want, with one login, from different vendors. You can selhost it easily. I use it on a Raspberry Pi with one login and have then access to gmail, yahoo and some other accounts.

To mimic a 'unified inbox' you can forward all the different accounts, to one 'major' account, so that you receive every mail in this inbox. Than you can create a 'sending alias', to answer the incoming mails with the proper SMTP service. Nothing easier than that with Roundcube.

[–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That sounds good too. Thinking about it, I dont necessarily need a unified inbox, it's just makes my life easier. Thank you.

[–] MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

https://roundcube.net/ is the main webside. You can download the complete *.tar.gz file from https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases. Screenshots are at https://roundcube.net/screens/

[–] 0xCAFE@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

Maybe a bit patience will do, since Thunderbird is planning to...

a) make an iOS app b) add support for sync to you can sync your settings and account conifgurations between devices

I don't know of any good solution that works right now however. :-/

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I am... Confused about your request. Why can't you also have the same on your phone? Are you still using popmail? Sounds like simply setting your accounts to IMAP should solve your problem.

[–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

I mainly want to be able to view them on my iPad. I can only use the web browser and not install apps on there.

[–] vort3@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Unless his email server doesn't support IMAP :-(

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I do that with p≡p mail. Unified inboxes work like a charm, plus other nice features.

https://pep.software/

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Never mind. Sorry for the post. My brain seems to ignore anything that's remotely attached to Apple and I completely missed the iOS part.

[–] nrbray@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago

I'd suggest trying FairEmail on your phone, https://email.faircode.eu/, before trying to set up an email server.

I would ask if you have good knowledge of IMAP. That allows access to a unified inbox from several devices and you don't have to own the server. It is far preferable to webmail for me.

I host my own email server and use many devices all over IMAP. If you need a server, nixos-mailserver is my recommendation. You could then try Roundcube on top but I bet you will use IMAP instead before you get there.

[–] tux0r@feddit.de -4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Websites do not have the functionality to connect to mail servers. These are different protocols.

For mail server infrastructure, Stalwart is said to be pretty good. I haven't had a chance to try it yet.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Stalwart looks neat, thanks for mentioning it. 🐧

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you try it, report back. ;-) My current setup is mostly OpenSMTPD & Dovecot, but I'm open for good reasons to move away.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

okay :) I find it interesting because :

Build in Rust
Supports several databases like rocksdb, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite
Seems to support connecting to your current logins setup e.g. LDAP or MySQL db
Got funding via NLnet
Supports JMAP
Does not seem to require Docker (which means for me some flexibility network config wise to run it on an existing server where non Docker based services are running).
Encryption at Rest enabled or disabled by user.

Especially the JMAP part I am curious about. I hope to toy with this every now and then, and then report back :)

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

JMAP sounds interesting indeed, but as far as I understand, there is an underwhelming number of clients that speak it?

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Ah, yes, you're right, cheers for that, but I am interested to compare JMAP speed and options with IMAP. And to test Stalwart I would not mind using the first and the last three in that Clients list.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tested Stalwart, the all in one option with both JMAP and IMAP. Looks fairlygood, works fine with IMAP and SMTP, but making it work with JMAP clients took me some time. This page helped for the F-Droid client lrr.rs. With Cypth it was a no go. SnappyMail webmail software is not mentioned on the JMAP clients page at all but it is with development 1/2 done with JMAP implementation. In a few months time Stalwart is expected to have a web interface for admins. Looking forward to testing again when that is available.

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

Thank you! :-)

[–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

Of course. I want to have a webmail websever. It's an interface for viewing and writing mails with the backend doing the mailserver connection.