IMAPS gateway with getmail and dovecot
It had been a while I wanted to have another solution for hosting and serving emails than Gmail. Especially because I am currently working on the Linux Kernel and at some point I would like to submit a few patches. Unfortunately, it is impossible to use Gmail for sending patches or even, to a greater extend, to be involved in the LKML. Also I think it is pretty fancy (nerdy?) to have my own email address, i.e. [email protected]. At the same time, I have always heard that managing a full email stack (from the mx DNS records up to the IMAP and SMTP servers) is a pain. It can definitely happen that my server is down for a few days which would mean that my emails would be inaccessible in the meantime. That is why I had this idea of using a stable frontend (i.e. via OVH, my hosting service company) before my own email server, so that whenever my server is down, I can still access my emails through this frontend. One could argue that I could just use the email facility that OVH provides but there are (at least) two reasons I prefer not to: The mailbox OVH offers me is only 2G in size, which is fairly small nowadays. I would like to manage my own data (I like the cloud, but only if it is mine!) Here is a picture of what I wanted to achieve (thanks to Asciiflow for the following ASCII Flow Diagram): ...