offlineimap3 VS solid

I suspect your new mail server supports IMAP. So you can run offlineimap to "sync" mails from Proton Mail to your server, as long as you have Proton Mail Bridge available.

I have also configured it that no deletes are synced, so I don't loose anything I delete by accident (sync_deletes). Also set the folderfilter to your liking. For all options check out https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap3/blob/master/offlineimap.conf

Offlineimap can backup Gmail without problems, including the labels (they are added as X-Keywords header to the mail).

You can synchronize your email off gmail using offlineimap or any other similar program (you can and also should make a full request of your data with Google right now, because even an unmanaged dump can serve as a backup copy). You could then ensure you lose nothing by version-controlling the resulting maildir using git.

Part of this is due to bad software design. The email server provides a service, but nothing prevents you from backing up the emails you synchronize... except for software that doesn't allow it because the devs didn't give a shit.

So I have to ask, why JMAP? And does anything like offlineJMAP exist?

i can not longer use mu4e with my outlook account because of 2FA. I used to set it up through a combo of DavMail and offlineimap3, but now that doesn't work because DavMail can no longer create a bridge between outlook and imap, since I don' know how to get it working with 2FA.

On https://www.offlineimap.org there is still a link to the repository that uses Python 2 which is no longer supported. At https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap3, development apparently continues with Python 3. There is version 8.0.0 available (https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap3/releases/tag/v8.0.0)

As Data Mesh gains traction, specialized tools, and platforms are evolving to support its principles and practices. These tools will enhance data product development capabilities, self-serve infrastructure, and federated governance, making it easier for organizations to implement and maintain Data Mesh. SolidProject, for example, provides tools for creating decentralized data pods that allow users to own and control their data. This aligns with Data Mesh principles by enabling domain-specific data ownership and promoting data privacy and security. Solid's framework allows for interoperability between different data systems while maintaining user control over data, which is crucial for the distributed nature of Data Mesh architectures (SolidProject, 2024).

This doesn't support the various consumer cloud storage APIs, but you've just reminded me of a project I ran into years ago that seems to still be around: https://remotestorage.io/

There's also Solid which attempts to do something similar: https://solidproject.org/

It is surprising to me this is not talked about more. I see little to none online news, podcasts, YouTube videos or anything else where this is discussed. I only found out about it because of research I did on Tim Berners-Lee in preparation for a Career Day talk at my kids middle school. Otherwise I would have probably not known about it still today. And even after I found out and started watching YouTube videos on the topic, YouTube won't even suggest any related videos about it even after already watching multiple videos on the subject (Web 3.0, Solid Project, Decentralized Web...etc).. is Big Tech trying to keep the web from evolving into what Sir Tim Berners-Lee is proposing?

It's only an unreasonable amount of work if you assume that the user is managing a separate storage backend for each library. If you take the Tim Berners-Lee approach (re: https://solidproject.org/) then each user is only managing one storage backend: the one that stores their data. The marginal cost of hooking in one more library low.

We just have to get a little more fed up with all of these services and then the initial cost of setting it up in the first place will be worth it. Any day now...

Solid is a web native protocol to enable interoperable, read-write, collaborative, and decentralized web, truer to web's original vision.

Manas project(https://github.com/manomayam/manas/tree/main) aims to create a modular framework and ecosystem to create correct, robust storage servers adhering to Solid protocol in rust.

[Solid](https://solidproject.org/) is a web native protocol to enable interoperable, read-write, collaborative, and decentralized web, truer to web's original vision.

    Solid adds to existing Web standards to realise a space where individuals can maintain their autonomy, control their data and privacy, and choose applications and services to fulfil their needs.

You're describing Solid, not the Semantic Web. Granted, Solid uses Semantic technologies to achieve it. https://solidproject.org/

Tim Berners-Lee's Solid project is working on that. Put data in "pods" that are stored on pod servers, which are federated. You can self-host.

It could be a federated layer of identity & personal content decoupled from social platforms.

https://solidproject.org/

Check out https://solidproject.org (If you want a short intro I recently gave a ~30min talk about it: https://noeldemartin.com/fosdem)