Perhaps email should be an App?

[marcusquinn]

I'm wondering if email services should be a Cloudron App?

That way it would have the same backup, restore, and migration features as all other apps.

Perhaps one Email App per domain where it's enabled, to make it easier to subdivide Cloudron servers in future.

[humptydumpty]

I've recently went through a server migration and a subdivision and having mail as a separate app sounds awesome. I wish we can choose which apps to restore when migrating a server which would have made my server subdivision a much smoother experience. Even now, I'd like to get a small VPS for CR mail only and this feature would be perfect!

[girish]

I remember we tried to make it as an app a while ago but it's quite complicated. We wanted to create a "fake app" instead which will have all the functionality of a normal app. Like backup/restore etc . So yes, thanks for the reminder to revisit this.

[crazybrad]

@girish Like the idea you are proposing. Do you think it possible to make it granular (by mailbox) on restore?

[marcusquinn]

@girish Yup, nothing to say that a Cloudron "App" has to be a Docker Container.