Storage & email
What MinIO and Mailhog are doing in the stack today, stated plainly — and how invites work while email delivery is not wired up yet.
Two services in the compose stack are there for what comes next, not for what runs today. This page says so plainly, so you can plan around it.
Object storage (MinIO)
The stack includes MinIO, an S3-compatible object store, ready for per-item attachments
Coming soon. Today, nothing in the application reads from or writes
to it — the miniodata volume stays empty, and the S3_* variables in .env.example are
reserved for the same future feature.
What that means for you:
- There is nothing in MinIO to back up. PostgreSQL remains the single source of truth (see Backups & restore).
- If you want a leaner stack, you can remove the
minioservice from your override file without losing anything. Keeping it costs little and means attachments work the moment the feature lands.
Here is the honest state: RyTask does not deliver email yet.
Outgoing mail — email verification, password resets, and emailed invitations — goes through
a mailer port inside the API. The current adapter logs the message instead of sending
it: you will see lines like [mailer:noop] would send "..." to ... in the API logs where
an email would have gone. A real SMTP adapter is planned
Coming soon.
Day to day, this matters less than it sounds, because the flow that most needs email has a built-in alternative:
- Inviting teammates works today via shareable links. In Settings → Members, choose "Create a shareable link" instead of an email invitation. RyTask shows you the invite link with the role pre-assigned — copy it and send it over whatever channel you already share with your teammate. Email-addressed invitations are also created and listed as pending, but the notification email itself is not delivered, so the link route is the one to use.
Mailhog
The mailhog service is a development mail catcher: it accepts SMTP on port 1025 and shows
everything it receives in a web inbox on port 8025. It is in the stack for development, and
ready for the day the SMTP adapter lands Coming soon — at which
point pointing the API's SMTP settings at Mailhog lets you preview every outgoing email
without delivering anything for real. Until then it sits idle, and like MinIO it is safe to
remove from a production deployment.
For where email notifications are headed, see email notifications.