External storage for emails and attachments? It's getting HUGE

[Pablo]

Hi!

EspoCRM has been our top sales tool and the team has sync their email (IMAP).

However, having a "copy" of everyone's emails and attachments can ocupy a LOT of storage in the server.

Is there any advice or a way we can store this content in external storage? (ex: AWS). Can admins know the total storage by user?

Thanks!

[yuri]

Hi Pablo,

Attachments can be stored on AWS S3 https://docs.espocrm.com/administrat.../#file-storage

[Pablo]

Thanks yuri ! Seems to be the perfect solution for attachments.

And for the database? Receiving and sending hundreds of emails per user can be heavy for the database. Any advice?

Thanks for your time.

[yuri]

For database there's no solution. You'll need to tweak/upgrade your server as email table is getting larger. It's ok to have large tables. You can also do a clean-up, deleting old emails with the Parent field empty.

[Pablo]

Fantastic. Thanks a lot for the help yuri

[esforim]

For database there's no solution. You'll need to tweak/upgrade your server as email table is getting larger. It's ok to have large tables. You can also do a clean-up, deleting old emails with the Parent field empty.

I have no coding experience and this probably fall under stupid question;

But would a possible solution for this to be able to support multiple database? For example; we can perhaps moved all the email from 2000-2010 in database into a separate table, then keep the 'active' email in main database. My layman thinking; this will help reduce burden for big table (or email table that will get big over the year).

[A. Conrads]

Hello everyone, i have a similar problem. Our hosting provider has a disk space limit for SQL databases. Unfortunately, emails take up a lot of storage space. It would be great if there was a solution, such as an email database, that could be outsourced.