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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Here's what I want.... I leave a computer on at home and it checks my email. I get emails from it at my phone. No setup. Make it work like Sinkthing used to work. I don't want cloud anything. Fucking backup nightmare where my shit ends up kidnapped by a company for monthly ransom.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

if it's anything like gmail, they'd offer imap so you can set it up in thunderbird and download your messages locally.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Syncthing still works like that. It’s completely self hostable. I have it on a pi 1B+ lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I have it but it eats up battery on the phones and the Dev left so it's probably going to go caput at some point.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You really need to clarify your comment, as it's already causing confusion.

  1. The official Syncthing project is going strong, and is not the same thing as the Android app.
  2. The Android app was discontinued late last year due to Google's increasingly difficult requirements to publish on the Play Store.
  3. Syncthing-Fork is now what Syncthing recommends for Android users.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Aw man, I really love syncthing, especially across my computers/backup server at home. I don’t even know what I’d use instead

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Syncthing isn't going anywhere. The Android app is the only thing that was dropped, and that was only because of Google's increasingly-difficult requirements to publish on the Play Store.

Syncthing-Fork is the spiritual successor to the original Android app and can be found on F-Droid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I know there's a fork. I'm hoping it picks up devs from where its at. It works beautifully.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh good to see!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Syncthing was only ever self-hosted...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sooo... where will be your email server then? On your home computer?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At home but separate computer with reverse proxy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh You will have trouble getting your outbound mail delivered

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It works I already tried. But I stopped short of jumping on board because its not the safest. No, what we need is some fedi style development. We need email on fedi.