OT: alternative to Gmail?

[Scott Stevenson]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:52:55PM -0600, Default User wrote:
[...]
> > No, it doesn't have to be, but if it is, I won't have to set up /
> > administer a separate email application program.  OTOH, I do fret about my
> > email being stored "out there in the cloud" . . .

You might want to look into offlineimap [1] to get the best of both
worlds: you can access your mail via webmail or IMAP from wherever,
whilst also keeping a synchronised copy in Maildir format locally for
backup and working offline.

[1] https://github.com/nicolas33/offlineimap

-- 
Scott Stevenson <scott at ecubyx.com>
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