[GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

[Christopher Browne]

Vis a vis the email part, I would think it possible that it should be
pretty easy to replicate IMAP locally.

I haven't used this in several years, but have installed and used a system
called offlineimap (see http://www.offlineimap.org/) which made it
relatively easy to duplicate IMAP repositories on a per user basis.

It needed only a couple lines of configuration per source.  And note it is
available as a Debian package :-)
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=offlineimap

There are sophisticated IMAP servers that are complex to manage, but this
was pretty easy.  If it covers your needs, then it's a pretty good answer.

I'd like to try out one of the options that uses Postgres as back end;
there should be big storage savings available via email contents being
automatically compressed in "TOAST" columns, but that is certainly a way
more complex approach.  Offlineimap is pretty simple!
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