I’m thinking of putting all my email archive (55k messages, about 6 GB) on a private IMAP server but I’m wondering how to access it remotely when needed.

Obviously I’d need a webmail client but is there any that can deal with that amount of data and also be able to search through To, From, Subject and body efficiently?

I can also set up a standalone search engine of some sort (the messages are stored one per file in regular folders) but then how do I view the message once I locate it?

I can also expose the IMAP server itself and see if I can find a mobile app that fits the bill but I’d rather not do that. A webmail client would be much easier to reverse proxy and protect.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      It’s already in files. I’m looking for something that will let me search and view the files remotely. Something better than logging in with ssh and grepping and looking at the raw mails. Which is still useful in a pinch but gets tedious when you need to read an attachment, or when the message was HTML.

      • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        9 months ago

        sry. didnt read carefully.

        nnn (tui file manager) would be an interesting solution. i know its not really perfect but you can interactively select and view files.