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Proton Mail Bridge application
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Restore a way to disable local caching #397

Closed primalmotion closed 1 year ago

primalmotion commented 1 year ago

In previous version of Bridge, it was possible to disable local caching. It was great when running it on small devices. Now I can't anymore, and this is a waste of space. Proton caches the mails, my client caches the mails. I have basically 2 copies of my mailbox, consuming gigabytes of data on a small 32GB phone.

Expected Behavior

It should be possible to disable (or at least drastically limit) caching of emails.

Current Behavior

Eats all my drive

Possible Solution

Put back the option

Steps to Reproduce

just start the app, it caches everything.

Version Information

3.2.0

Context (Environment)

Running proton bridge on a small mobile device.

LBeernaertProton commented 1 year ago

Unfortunately, the cache is currently required for v3's performance. V2 was plagued with issues related to a lack of cache. We have no plans to restore this feature.

It's great to see bridge running in unexpected places, but a 32GB mobile phone with Linux is not among the targets we are considering when developing this piece of software.

primalmotion commented 1 year ago

I understand. Linux phones are becoming a real thing, so maybe in the future, you should start considering them a bit ;) In the meantime I have installed hydroxide on my servers. I would have installed proton-bridge but I could not find a way to make it listen on 0.0.0.0. 127.0.0.1 seems hardcoded

LBeernaertProton commented 1 year ago

This is by design, bridge is meant to be run on the same machine you will be accessing your mails from.