Not sure how Docker behaves, but in a Stack/Compose file you can define volumes to use a specific driver, such as smb. E.g.:
volumes:
smb-calibre:
driver_opts:
type: "smb3"
device: "//mynas/ebooks/CalibreDB"
o: "ro,vers=3.1.1,addr=192.168.1.1,username=mbirth,password=secret,cache=loose,iocharset=utf8,noperm,hard"
So Docker will take care of mounting. Paired with restart: unless-stopped, all my Containers come back online just fine after an outage.
I’ve setup Dovecot and Solr in Docker containers for the IMAP end. Solr provides a fulltext search for Dovecot. I’ve also configured a virtual “All Mail” folder that shows all the messages on the server - to help with clients that don’t support search in all folders.
As webmail client, I’m using SnappyMail and let it search the “All Mail” folder.
See also: https://blog.cloudron.io/email-search-in-mail-clients/
Of course. The original OS, Terramaster OS (TOS), is Linux based and you can replace it with other plain Linux versions or a NAS-specific distro such as OMV or UnRAID.
Since this is basically an Intel NUC, even Windows might run on the thing.
I’m looking at the TerraMaster F4-423 which is basically an Intel NUC soldered to a SATA controller. It has 4x 3.5" SATA bays, an internal USB slot for the OS, 2x m.2 slots, HDMI output, 2x 2.5G LAN, etc. Comes with 4GB RAM, supports up to 32GB. I think it’s the smallest NAS with custom OS you can get.
@shiftymccool@lemm.ee It’s now 24 hours later - what do you think? I’m also running a NextCloud to run PhoneTrack. I had a customised version of php-tracks-recorder before that, but wanted something for multiple devices/users and with a bit more features.
Yep, had ejabberd running on a Pi 3 with all the XEPs supported by Conversations enabled and various transports. 4 or 5 people at times. No problems at all - with chat and memes, that is. Never tried video or voice calls, but I don’t think they require much work from the Pi itself.
However, similar to @solidgrue@lemmy.world, in a bout of simplifying my life I decided to nix the setup as all people involved also had one or more of Threema, Signal or Telegram anyways.