[Users] Maintaining local mailboxes

Andrej Kacian andrej at kacian.sk
Tue Sep 15 23:35:04 CEST 2015


On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:18:40 -0400
Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> > I was running my own Dovecot running on localhost, but gave up on it
> > since it's mor complicated setup and have need to (occasionally)
> > access my email from Androidp phone which means that my machine
> > should be online 24/7, right?  
> 
> Abso-lutely! My desktop runs 24/7 anyway.

An alternative is a low-powered PC in your closet running the IMAP
server. 192.168.0.2 is a bit slower than 127.0.0.1, but almost
imperceptibly.

-- 
Andrej



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