How to store emails on SD card

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According to a post here, one can store K9-mail emails on an SD card, as follows:

  • Go to Settings → Account Settings.
  • Check for the Storage option
  • Select the SDCard instead of internal storage

However, when I go to Settings → Account settings, I can’t see a “Storage” option.

Any ideas?

Dave

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That post was from ELEVEN YEARS ago. Things changed a lot since then, most devices don’t even HAVE external SD cards nowadays. So no, you can’t change the storage location any more.

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I have an internal SD card as do many other Android users. Most Android apps allow one to store their data on their internal SD card rather than on their buiilt-in storage. Why not K-9 Mail?

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What do you mean “internal SD card”? If you can remove it then it’s an external one - the internal storage is called SDcard in most devices now since barely any OEMs still add the option to insert a removable SD card. I think only about 10 new devices still have them.

Google blocked that “apps to SD” stuff a long time ago already anyway, for reasons only they will know.

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Hello Nimueh -
I’d like to point out that Chromebooks are an amazing device for Internet, running Android apps, and running Linux in a container. As such, Chromebooks use SD Cards to expand memory (data storage) space. Every modern Chromebook has an SD Card slot and there’s millions of them out there.
And the K-9 / Thunderbird email client is a very robust app for use on Chromebooks.

So the ability to house the email repositories on an SD Card would be much appreciated by this significant community of users, even if most new mobile phones have been crippled by removal of an external SD Card slot.