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Thinking of a local mail storage with anti spam
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My advice - do not fall into the trap that you can run e-mail better than a provider who does that for a living.
The easiest way imo is to pick a provider who specializes in this sort of thing. Then begin to rotate your accounts from the old account to the new one, utilizing aliases or masks as needed and desired.
as you do so , archive old emails off your old account. Periodically check but remove it from your daily driver. At some point, all will be left is spam at which point you can … let that mail provider manage for you.
Many mail providers have excellent spam protection so you are right - get it at the source.
Depends how much your time is worth? For some it is easily worth the $1-$5/USD Month to let your mail provider handle the bulk of it.
I might be wrong, but for me OP is not trying to actually run email, rather have a staging ground that pulls all emails from their accounts on actual providers, apply some treatment to said emails and pull them from client-side apps on their devices.
Yeah I get that, but the way that usually works is by running a mail host that relays to upstream accounts.
Such things are a stairway to heaven to malware & Trojan horses…nothing says “check me out” like a bot finding out smtp is open on a local domain behind a firewall. That moves the attack from auto crypto mal to “how can we control this dudes email”.
I get the intention just be very very careful.