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I am not too concerned with the security aspect of putting my mail on the SD card, I am however very interested in moving the mail storage from the phone's internal memory to the SD card.

I have looked at the Gmail app and the stock Mail app and neither of them seem to be movable to the SD card so does anybody know if this can be done?

To be more specific, I really do not need to move the app itself, only the mail storage so if there is a way to move the storage location of mails from the internal memory to the SD card I would be very interested to know how that is done.

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AFAIK You cannot do that. :( – Suraj Bajaj Oct 27 '12 at 11:24
Which Android version? What brand/model of phone? – david6 Oct 27 '12 at 20:28
Suraj Bajaj: That is sadly what I also think but I would like to be sure. David6: HTC Desire Z A7272 Android 2.3.3 HTC 2.1 (if that makes any difference) – Erik Oct 31 '12 at 10:20

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Only if you rooted, you can use data2sd, where /data/data linked to /sd-ext/data (or just sdcard mounted to /data). Then ALL application data will be stored on SD Card.

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K-9 Mail supports to store mail on the SDCard. So if you're not bound to the GMail or the other pre-installed mail apps, this might be worth a try.

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