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💌 Mail app for Nextcloud
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Feature to move emails from a mailserver to Nextcloud for long-term storage #9551

Open HammyHavoc opened 5 months ago

HammyHavoc commented 5 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

After a while, I simply don't need certain emails on a mailserver and they take up storage on both the mail service and devices synced to them, but I do still need to keep them.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like a feature to "Archive on Nextcloud" or "Transfer to Nextcloud" on specific emails, specific email threads, or emails labelled with a specific tag, e.g. "Store on Nextcloud", so I could even pick emails to be archived long-term on the Nextcloud server from my phone's Gmail client.

These emails transferred to Nextcloud should still appear within the Nextcloud Mail interface, but perhaps with a ❄️ icon somewhere to indicate that they're in deep-freeze long-term storage on the Nextcloud server, but not on the mailserver itself.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Gmail AppScript, but it's quite limited when it comes to interacting with third-party servers beyond the Google ecosystem.

Additional context

I think it would make sense to store them as files for easy restoration via other utilities if required: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir

andreas1107 commented 4 months ago

I would also appreciate such a feature. Another option that fills a similar use case is to enable POP3 support, so that Nextcloud mail could be used as an email backup solution.

EmersonHeiderich commented 2 months ago

This feature would be perfect. The POP3 option would also be viable.

ChristophWurst commented 2 months ago

@andreas1107 @EmersonHeiderich add your :+1: to https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/issues/9551#issue-2236914107. A comment causes unnecessary notifications for people subscribed to the topic. Thanks.