> ...because an email server is backed by a database and doing database backups right is hard if that is not your day-job. I store my email on dovecot with Mai

> ...because an email server is backed by a database and doing database backups right is hard if that is not your day-job. I store my email on dovecot with Maildir storage. For a single or just a few accounts is perfectly fine and you can backup the emails with your favorite backup tool.