[ale] Why Run your own email server?

[Chris Fowler]

> From: "Steve Litt" <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 8:45:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Why Run your own email server?

> My fetchmail triggers every 180 seconds (3 minutes) to imap-pull my
> email. It plunks each email into procmail, which deposits each email
> into the proper maildir folder of my local Dovecot server. I use
> Claws-Mail as a periscope into my local Dovecot server.

I think mine triggers every 2 minutes. I have it use procmail to feed it to a spam filter, virus, and a few programs like a vacation notice. 

I noticed I had almost 20,000 emails unread at gmail. I really need fetchmail to make a full backup of my gmail in maildir format then delete everything at google. Start back from 0. 
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