#eMail #selfHosting gurus: I am looking for the simplest possible way to host myself a mailbox I can add to my email clients (Thunderbird, phone, etc.) as usual, so I can move mails there to free up space on the 3rd party "real" emails, then back them up separately on my server.

I do not want receiving or sending emails to work. Just an IMAP or whatever box I can shove emails in the face by dragging them in Thunderbird or with a script.

Ideally available in #NixOS

#dovecot?

I've set up #dovecot on my #vps #mailserver, and I want #systemd to restart it on failure or if it's killed. So in `/etc/systemd/system/dovecot.service.d/restart.conf` I have
`[Service]
Restart=always
RestartSec=5s`
But when I pkill the process it doesn't seem to be restarting. I have rebooted. Anyone know why that would be?
#AskFedi #FediTechSupport #Linux

Pulled my hair out trying to figure out why the hell #Thunderbird could only see ~2000 out of the total ~16000 messages in a folder in an #IMAP account I just configured.

It would briefly flash “16000 messages” and then show “2000 messages”.

Eventually I figured out that it's because, on the server side, most of those email files (Maildir++ format) had the wrong owner, so #Dovecot couldn't read them.

Yep, that'll do it. One `chown -R` later, emails are pouring in.