[MlMt] Local email archiving status/options?

[Muster Hans]

As far as I am aware the mail component of the $20 Apple OS Server 
product requires a fixed IP address, plus appropriate DNS entries of 
course.

On 25 Aug 2015, at 19:14, Helen Holzgrafe wrote:

> We also use Apple Server mail with Mailmate.  Because there are two of 
> us we use an older mac as a designated server machine, but you can use 
> Apple server on your own machine to host your own imap mail and use 
> your own disk drive as a direct mail archive. For $20 for Apple Server 
> software and possibly a cheap outboard disk drive (that you probably 
> have already), you can avoid limits pretty much anywhere. We have our 
> own mail domain, but you can use a mix of your own accounts just on 
> your server and real accounts like Google mail and move messages 
> between them.
>
> We were using Postbox (and Eudora before that) and .mbox files. Then, 
> my .mbox files got bitrot of some kind and ultimately Postbox could 
> not read many of them.  It took much work to translate more than 
> 340000 messages archived for 20 years that were somewhat garbled, but 
> I did.
>
> On 25 Aug 2015, at 7:58, David O'Donnell wrote:
>
>> On 25 Aug 2015, at 7:03, Brian Scholl wrote:
>>
>>> Also, a more theoretical postscript: It seems to me that Benny's 
>>> reluctance to pursue any sort of .mbox export […]
>>
>> I can’t speak to the IMAP-*v*-POP3 debate, but I would really love 
>> the ability to export a series of messages as a .mbox file in the 
>> same format that Apple Mail does.
>>
>> In addition to using SpamSieve on my Mac (which is quite good), I 
>> maintain my own mail server (Mac OS X 10.6.8, until I am forced to 
>> “upgrade”) and use SpamAssassin there to try to intercept as much 
>> crud as possible *before* it gets to SpamSieve. Apple Mail produces 
>> the perfect .mbox files for feeding to SpamAssassin’s spam-learning 
>> routines, so periodically I have to haul Mail out, select all the 
>> junk that SpamAssassin needs to learn how to intercept, and File > 
>> Save As… (raw source) to a file that I can then drag to the server 
>> and run learnspam against.
>
> OooH! A tactic I had not realized I can use!  Thanks, I will start 
> doing doing this right away!
>
> -Helen
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