Dear community, I tried to search in this forum if someone already treated this subject but I couldn’t find any topic covering this specific question.
I don’t understand if /e/ will have its own cloud service to backup and sync the data of the phone, or if it will be possible to use another cloud service. ex( Dropbox, NextCloud, Mega, Microsoft cloud drive …ecc).
For backup and sync I mean: contacts / settings / phone calls / messages / apps data.
I host a NextCloud server and I would be really happy to be able to store my data on my own server, as well I can see how a Dropbox user can enjoy having all his data in one place.
Thanks and sorry if this subject was already discussed.
/e/ has a Docker image on their TODO-list, which should enable you to self-host your data in an easy way:
we will provide /e/ services packaged as Docker images so that users can install the service on their own servers for self-hosting their mail, online storage, calendar etc.
So they already plan the functionality, that one can self-host ones own data.
Currently some data can only be synced with ones eDrive account, but I assume that this restriction will be extended in the future to support self-hosted servers.
Syncing contacts and calender can already be done with any CalDAV/CardDAV server of your choice. (I already use my own NextCloud server for that)
For messages/apps data I am not aware of a planned functionality - is that not a functionality of each app?
If you can think of a specific enhancement, then you can submit a featurerequest here: https://gitlab.e.foundation/groups/e/-/issues.
You can of course use your own server. The services that /e/ provides are all based on open protocols (IMAP, SMTP, webDAV, calDAV, cardDAV). You can even use the same software that /e/ uses on their severs. https://e.email/ is a the RainLoop Webmail interface and https://drive.ecloud.global/ is Nextcloud.