Frank via plug on 11 Oct 2024 07:43:29 -0700


[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: [PLUG] FOSS Google App/etc Alternatives


Since IMAP doesn't support labels, I think you're going to be stuck with some sort of proprietary system, unfortunately.


Speaking of which, I just remembered...  I believe that Outlook with an Exchange server in the back end satisfies all of your requirement except for the bookmarks.  It does email labels.  It's interface is consistent across devices.  I used this setup for a long time, and it worked well for me.  I used a few different Exchange hosts, but none of them were particularly extraordinary (RIP Rackspace).


As a bonus, Microsoft isn't exclusively in the data mining business like Google is.


- Frank


On 10/11/24 10:32 AM, Rich Freeman via plug wrote:
On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 10:09 AM Frank via plug
<plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
For contacts and calendar, why not just use the WebDAV/CalDAV/CardDAV
standard, and then use any sort of interface you want?
Well, the "interface you want" is the part I'm mostly focused on here.
I don't really care what underlying protocol it uses to communicate.
It just needs a way for it to look the same on the web and on android,
and be self-hosted.  Mail isn't my only focus but in the case of mail
I'm more interested in the MUA than the MTA, though there is a bit of
a link only because I'm not sure how well IMAP handles tags.  (GMail
supports IMAP but I think they just map every tag to a virtual folder
- I'm not sure how well that works in practice.)

I don't want one of those situations where I end up with 3 copies of
the same thing that all end up being slightly out of sync with each
other.

___________________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group         --        http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion  --   http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug