Email - Designate external storage disk location for email, just like an app.

[nebulon]

This is not tested as such or support so far, but I agree should be doable. I've added https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/issues/723

[girish]

I wonder if we should invest some effort in making the whole email system as just another app. This is complicated but doable with some work. It has the benefits of leveraging all our app design and at the same time a) allows people to install the mail server in a any location they want and b) opens up option to setup alternate email solutions like say kopano (cc @fbartels ).

[fbartels]

@girish that would be awesome

[marcusquinn]

from me

I think Mailboxes & Nextcloud are always going to be the most disk-hungry data silos, so they make more sense to have on attached drives or storage than almost any other app. Although the Video & Photo Library ones could be for some.

It doesn't make sense to keep increasing VPS sizes just for the additional disk-space, when mostly the CPUs & RAM are adequate on reasonably low tiers.

I'm always tight with paying for unused utilities so that we can be generous in paying for developers to make these efficiencies

[salazarsja]

@girish @fbartels Any news on this?

I have been looking around and have not seen this feature announced on any release

[d19dotca]

@salazarsja Currently the main method here to move emails off the main SSD and onto an external disk is to move Cloudron's Boxdata (ref: https://docs.cloudron.io/storage/#default-data-directory)

[salazarsja]

@d19dotca thanks a lot, worked just fine for me.

[robi]

@salazarsja did you move everything or just the mail dirs?

[salazarsja]

@robi I decided to move both, appsdata and boxdata.

[alwynispat]

looks like https://docs.cloudron.io/storage/#default-data-directory is now missing. I need to use another disk for mail storage.

[jdaviescoates]

@alwynispat https://docs.cloudron.io/server#default-data-directory