On 18.11.24 12:52, Marc wrote:
Sorry for being off topic, but why are you deciding to move to dovecot? I have the impression the trend is that everyone is moving to google/outlook?
Oh, I am using dovecot for years as my primary (private) mail. Even the company I am working for is still using dovecot/exim (besides Exchange for the administration). The GMail account in question is an old one I just want to migrate now. Never used it as primary mail.
Why am I using dovecot? There are several issues I have with the services big tech offers:
Full control over my mail and not depending on a big tech company to decide what my quota is (or if I have to use some paid plan to get feature X), if the service is shut down at some future point, what AI models are trained on my messages, ...
Data protection: If another person/a tech company do not need to see my data/message, why should they? Sure, there a E2E encryption solutions as SMIME/PGP, but this works only with your tech-affine friends and do not protect unencrypted incoming mail from being monitored.
Standard (RFC) compliance. It is way to annoying to work around the specialities of Exchange/Google/... if you using mail for e.g. stuff like sending git patches to open source projects. Just try to send a mail over an Exchange relay without it is destroying the (valid) From-header field ;)
Flexibility of my mail setup. I want to have some alias which is forwarded to my main inbox but is archived in a separate mailbox shared with another person. Sure, just setup a second mailbox in dovecot and tell postfix how to handle the virtual mail address. Tasks like that are flexible to solve with a MTA/dovecot setup. Sure, you likely can do that with the big providers as well, but I am sure that there is sometimes a long way you have to go to solve some problems
Anyway, I am a big fan of dovecot and am very happy that this still available as solution while the big crowd is converting to Google/Microsoft.
Best, Jan