On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:36:02 -0700
Samuel Sieb wrote:
Ok, but my other point was that mail clients like Thunderbird can be
configured to download all the emails, so they are available locally and
offline.
I use fetchmail to download all my mail locally, where I store
it in my own dovecot imap server instance. That way I get local
copies, but can read mail from any client that supports IMAP
(though once I finally decided I liked claws-mail best, I
haven't switched mail clients).
This has the advantage of allowing me to also use the dovecot-pigeonhole
package to provide the "sieve" mail filtering scripts which is
incredibly more useful than any of the filters in any mail
clients I've ever seen.