I like using thunderbird to have all my emails in the same place, in a unified inbox. This doesn't allow me to access my inbox on my phone etc though, so I'm looking for a FOSS way to solve this problem.

My idea would be to selfhost a website, like a webmail site, that has the functionality of connecting to different mail servers and unifying the inbox to get all my mail in the same place. Should be accessible by android phones and iPads.

Is there a better way to do this? Maybe with nextcloud? If anyone has an idea, let me know.

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[–] scooby007@feddit.uk 6 points 9 months ago

K-9 mail app on android has a unified inbox. This is a FOSS app and part of thunderbird now.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I do that with p≡p mail. Unified inboxes work like a charm, plus other nice features.

https://pep.software/

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Never mind. Sorry for the post. My brain seems to ignore anything that's remotely attached to Apple and I completely missed the iOS part.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Cypht can do that and can be installed via Yunohost for example on a Raspberry Pi or rented VPS.

[–] MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hmm sounds like a Webmail client, like Roundcube. Luckily (at least from my point of view) it has no 'unified inbox', but you can have as many mail accounts you want, with one login, from different vendors. You can selhost it easily. I use it on a Raspberry Pi with one login and have then access to gmail, yahoo and some other accounts.

To mimic a 'unified inbox' you can forward all the different accounts, to one 'major' account, so that you receive every mail in this inbox. Than you can create a 'sending alias', to answer the incoming mails with the proper SMTP service. Nothing easier than that with Roundcube.

[–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That sounds good too. Thinking about it, I dont necessarily need a unified inbox, it's just makes my life easier. Thank you.

[–] On@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

you could set up email accounts as forwarders to a single account. And on the email client add these accounts as aliases so you can reply with them. So you get a single unified view of emails as well as ability to reply with the one you want.

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Websites do not have the functionality to connect to mail servers. These are different protocols.

For mail server infrastructure, Stalwart is said to be pretty good. I haven't had a chance to try it yet.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

This doesn't make sense.

A website is basically just the responses a server sends to a browser. That server has any functionality you want it to.

[–] nrbray@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

I'd suggest trying FairEmail on your phone, https://email.faircode.eu/, before trying to set up an email server.

I would ask if you have good knowledge of IMAP. That allows access to a unified inbox from several devices and you don't have to own the server. It is far preferable to webmail for me.

I host my own email server and use many devices all over IMAP. If you need a server, nixos-mailserver is my recommendation. You could then try Roundcube on top but I bet you will use IMAP instead before you get there.