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Curious as to why. Is it a security issue or is it just not convenient.....
Thunderbird will import .mbox files but you'll need a plugin called ImportExportTools NG.
Import:
Not convenient. My computer is actually a docked Steamdeck I only use occasionally in Desktop mode. I know lots of people will frown at that, but I do 99% of anything I do (aside from gaming), on my phone since a long time ago. For work I have a work laptop and I surely wouldn't want to store my mails there.
So having Thunderbird on my Steamdeck for browsing old e-mails is just not convenient for me.
My small homeserver is part of a backup strategy, so putting something on it reachable via a webUI of some sort will also ensure all of that is backed up. Since my Steamdeck is mostly games and many saves are stored in the cloud automatically, I don't back it up as much, not worth the effort.
OK That's cool. Didn't know what your set up was like. So, scratch ~~Thunderbird~~. LOL
I would recommend pika for easy backup, steamdeck (or even a windows pc) could have problems with cloud saves. If you want real backups you should set up deduplicated archives. This means you just install pika and click a couple times. You can set it to backup over ssh. The deduplicated compressed backup is often smaller than source data size even if it has years of archives.
A nice, simple solution of having a file and an app that can read that file. Hard to believe people are suggesting setting up a whole e-mail server to read one file.
Was just recently trying to figure out how to browse my mbox backup, and wound up at the same solution.
I'm stunned that it's part of a plugin, and not a standard feature. Didn't see many other actively maintained programs that made it easy either.