Can I change where Mailspring stores my mail?

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Mailspring stores a cache of your email data on your computer, including all of the headers in your mailboxes and a limited set of email message bodies and attachments. Saving this information is required, and enables great client-side search and a snappy UI.

You can change where Mailspring's data is kept by creating a symlink on your system, redirecting the settings folder to another location or another drive.

1) First, quit Mailspring and identify where it is storing it's data:

Mac:

~/Library/Application Support/Mailspring

Windows:

C:\Users\<Your User>\AppData\Roaming\Mailspring

Linux:

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Mailspring or ~/.config/Mailspring

 

2) Next, move this directory to your desired location.

 

3) Finally, create a symlink from the old location to the new location. On Mac and Linux, you do this using the `ln` command and the paths you used above. For Windows users, the MKLINK command is used to create a symbolic link from the old Mailspring directory to its new location:

 

Mac, Linux:

ln -sf "~/Library/Application Support/Mailspring" "/Volumes/Big Disk/Mailspring"

Windows: 

MKLINK /D "C:\Users\<Your User>\AppData\Roaming\Mailspring" "D:\MyData\Mailspring"