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Making an Automatic Email Backup (2026): One Repo, Better Search
Five years in, my self-hosted email archive gets cleaned up: four repos become one, Solr is replaced by Dovecot's built-in search, All Mail and Flagged folders finally work, and certificate renewals stop needing a manual restart.
Making an Automatic Email Backup - Part 2
Adding self-signed SSL certificates to Dovecot and installing Roundcube, so the local mail archive is reachable from any browser on the network.
Making an Automatic Email Backup - Part 1
Automatically backing up a remote IMAP mailbox to a home server with mbsync, then serving the archive locally with Dovecot so any mail client can read it.