<![CDATA[Mail and Volumes]]>Hi, I have looked around on here for answers and have not found much. Also I am not very knowledgeable about linux etc.
I have a volume mounted as filesystem and have a few domains running on this cloudron service. I have alot of email data for these domains and would like to move it to the volume. Is this possible? I have tried doing it for one domain via the roundcube app thats installed for that induvidual domain, by going into app and under the storage tab and moving it that way but it does not work.
I suspect I am misunderstanding how the system is setup. Can someone please enlighten me?
Thanks

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/14250/mail-and-volumesRSS for NodeMon, 15 Jun 2026 15:08:42 GMTWed, 27 Aug 2025 04:45:26 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Mail and Volumes on Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:42:13 GMT]]>@mattcazz yes, definitely . In hindsight, we should have maybe package the mail server more like an "app" . And then just like other apps, it would have gained all the customization of Cloudron apps. The email configuration could then have been inside this "mail server" app. We want to rework mail server to an app after Cloudron 9.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/112345https://forum.cloudron.io/post/112345Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:42:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mail and Volumes on Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:53:22 GMT]]>Joseph.
Thanks for the reply. Would it be something that you would be considering for the future, the possibility to add a feature move email data to a volume? I have a single domain with 25gb of mail. If it cannot be moved off I will have to enlarge the droplet. Thanks for your help and a great product.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/112144https://forum.cloudron.io/post/112144Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:53:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mail and Volumes on Wed, 27 Aug 2025 07:44:34 GMT]]>Mails are stored in the mail server . Apps like roundcube are just frontends and don't store mail data in the app themselves.

We don't have a easy way to move just mail data to a separate volume (i.e not via the UI).

You can symlink the boxdata folder (The mail is stored in boxdata/mail . IMPORTANT: you have to symlink boxdata. symlinking mail won't work) . https://docs.cloudron.io/storage/#default-data-directory . As noted in the docs, this will work but it's not "supported" . I think we have to implement this feature is a proper fashion to make it supported.

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