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by kragen 454 days ago
This is kind of what POP2/POP3 are for. The "post office" holds your mail until you connect to pick it up with the Post Office Protocol, at which point it no deletes its local copy. I think most hosted mail services support POP3? But I think at that point you already have all the disadvantages of non-self-hosted email, plus all the disadvantages of self-hosted email.