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by akitaonrails 29 days ago
Most people just trust Google and leave everything there. Anyone who follows this blog knows I don’t trust anyone: if it’s in the cloud, it’s not mine. That’s why I keep a NAS at home to back up everything that matters. I don’t trust Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, or Gmail.

After a while it clicked: Linux has had native email support forever. The modern protocols (IMAP, SMTP) are open standards. And the local storage format, Maildir, has been around and working well since the 90s. Thunderbird isn’t needed for any of this.