Can someone explain email to me?

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Using Yunohost happily for years, but have never bothered messing with the built in email. I’ve always heard that hosting your own email is a pain and rarely worth it. Recently though, I thought I’d look into it with the idea that I could configure Yunohost to send notifications via my webmail via SMTP. Hey, printers can do it! I was unable to figure out how to do it. Part of the problem seems to be that I cannot fully replace Yunohost’s internal mail system. I figured out how to check the mail queue and there were like 150 emails (i have long-ago disabled dovecot since I didn’t need it). I reenabled dovecot and cleared the queue, but it really made me wonder: what is the point of the system generating email notifications if there is nowhere to read them?? Like, shouldn’t the webadmin include a mailbox or message center? How would I even know the system was generating emails? Sorry for the rant. I do really appreciate Yunohost. The email integration just seems esoteric compared to how easy everything else is.

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You can install any webmail client (like Rouncube or SnappyMail) from the catalog or straight up set your desktop client to read main YNH generates.

There’s nothing magical about built-in, it acts just like your external mail provider would do.

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Ok, I finally got into snappymail. I had over 30k emails in there lol. I feel like yunohost should come with an email client installed and configured if the system is going to come configured to generate so many emails.

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No need for a web app. You can use thunderbird or any email client on desktop or mobile.
You can also check the docs about email