Self hosted webmail client with an Android app?

[SergeyB]

Hi everyone!

 

Not sure if this is the right forum to ask this, but here goes...
I'm looking for a webmail client that's available for self-hosting on a private server, and at the same time, also has an Android app to access it from my phone.

You might have guessed that the idea is to get rid of Gmail and host my email services independently on a private server.

Does anyone know of something like this?

 

Thanks in advance!

[WereCatf]

6 minutes ago, SergeyB said:

I'm looking for a webmail client that's available for self-hosting on a private server

https://mailcow.email/

https://www.iredmail.org/

6 minutes ago, SergeyB said:

also has an Android app to access it from my phone

Um, you don't need a service-specific email-client. That'd be pointless. Any email-client that supports POP3 or IMAP would work fine with those, like e.g. Aquamail.

[manikyath]

well.. in terms of android app, as long as your e-mail service of choice supports IMAP you can use just about any mail client of your liking.

 

as for self hosted mail applications with a web interface.. there's a bunch of options on the linux side of things, i suppose it's a matter of picking and choosing whichever featureset you like most.

i suppose this could be a good place to start: https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-linux-mail-server-software-and-solutions/

 

also, if you're looking to replace other parts of the google suite, have a look at owncloud: https://owncloud.com/

[SergeyB]

Sounds like good options, thanks guys!
For some reason, my previous experience with IMAP/POP3 was weird, in a way that when I had 2 clients, one web and one mobile the messages didn't sync properly between them. Meaning when I deleted an email on one client, it remained on the server and downloaded again to the other client...
Based on that, what I was looking for is a centralzied, yet self hosted service for the apps to connect to that would store all messages from the server
But this weirdness doesn't seem to be happening now based on my recent tests, so I guess any 2 clients/apps should work.

[LogicalDrm]

20 hours ago, SergeyB said:

Sounds like good options, thanks guys!
For some reason, my previous experience with IMAP/POP3 was weird, in a way that when I had 2 clients, one web and one mobile the messages didn't sync properly between them. Meaning when I deleted an email on one client, it remained on the server and downloaded again to the other client...
Based on that, what I was looking for is a centralzied, yet self hosted service for the apps to connect to that would store all messages from the server
But this weirdness doesn't seem to be happening now based on my recent tests, so I guess any 2 clients/apps should work.

Sounds like you were using POP3 instead of IMAP. With IMAP (at leat the way I understand it while using it) every client syncs directly with server. Every client loads folders etc. from server. And then you can have local folders and duplicate emails to them if you need to. With POP3 clients load emails from server, but don't do changes to server. Everything is only happening locally. And this is how I have understood it. I have used Thunderbird with Gmail for years, and now using Bluemail on Android instead of Gmail app.

[SergeyB]

4 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

Sounds like you were using POP3 instead of IMAP. With IMAP (at leat the way I understand it while using it) every client syncs directly with server. Every client loads folders etc. from server. And then you can have local folders and duplicate emails to them if you need to. With POP3 clients load emails from server, but don't do changes to server. Everything is only happening locally. And this is how I have understood it. I have used Thunderbird with Gmail for years, and now using Bluemail on Android instead of Gmail app.

Now that makes sense. Thank you!!