Mail Users without Nextcloud Access possible?

Maintenance
#1

Hi there,

I would love to live in a world where developers are always as emphatic towards the operators of their software, as the creators of MIAB obviously are. I love MIAB as far as that goes.

I am so happy with my MIAB that I offered to handle Mails for a small non-profit org over my box. Just some mail accounts and aliases.

Just wanted to ask if there is a way to prevent nextcloud access for those new accounts. I just want to prevent disk space from being used up by people using this feature. It’s not a huge problem as I can simply tell them to not use it but if it is possible to deactivate access, it would be better.

Thanks for any help and hints
Andy

#2

[ @andymel has pointed out that my optimism about footprint is wrong. ]

Mail-in-a-Box has a very limited Nextcloud footprint – only contacts and calendar. The file sharing features of Nextcloud are disabled. It seems unlikely to me that your disk space usage will be noticeably affected by contacts and calendaring…

#3

Hmm, not on my box. I can create/read/write/up/download and also share and collaboratively edit files.
Maybe I have actively activated it during installation (Unfortunately too long ago to remember).

The online storage is availabe at https://mybox/cloud/index.php/apps/files/
A shared file can be accessed via a link like https://mybox/cloud/index.php/s/xT493Hidz1Ac

looks like this
image

#4

Right you are – shows how little I use Nextcloud facilities.

#5

My optimism tempered, and having looked further at the configuration, it seems like it is not a simple idea to implement – nextcloud has complicated configuration and migration issues in miab.

One thing I can think of would be a carefully aggressive nginx deny declaration in a block for all /cloud/ urls… You’d want to put it in mailinabox/conf/nginx-primaryonly.conf to ensure it sticks, and you’d be on your own vis-a-vis any support issues…

Another option might be to comment-out source setup/nextcloud.sh from setup/start.sh to prevent any nextcloud installation. But, I really don’t have a good sense of whether that would break other parts of the system that might depend on nextcloud…

#6

This topic was automatically closed 40 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.