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⁠mailserver2/mailserver

⁠Fork

This is a fork that provides the bare minimum of maintenance for the excellent hardware/mailserver⁠. Thank you very much.

⁠Chat & questions

⁠Build

⁠Docker image

mailserver2/mailserver is a simple and full-featured mail server build as a set of multiple docker images, including:

• Postfix: a full-set SMTP email server
• Dovecot: secure IMAP and POP3 email server
• Rspamd: anti-spam filter with SPF, DKIM, DMARC, ARC, rate limiting and greylisting capabilities
• Clamav: antivirus with automatic updates and third-party signature databases
• Zeyple: automatic GPG encryption of all your emails
• Sieve: email filtering (vacation auto-responder, auto-forward, etc...)
• Fetchmail: fetch emails from external IMAP/POP3 server into local mailbox
• Rainloop: web based email client
• Postfixadmin: web-based administration interface
• Unbound: recursive caching DNS resolver with DNSSEC support
• NSD: authoritative DNS server with DNSSEC support
• Træfik: modern HTTP reverse proxy
• SSL: Let's Encrypt with auto-renewal (SAN and wildcard certificates), custom and self-signed certificates support
• *OpenLDAP: [BETA] LDAP support available (only in 1.1-latest for now)
• Supporting multiple virtual domains over MySQL/PostgreSQL backend
• Integration tests with Travis CI
• Automated builds on DockerHub

⁠Summary

• mailserver2/mailserver⁠
  • Fork⁠
  • Chat & questions⁠
  • Build⁠
  • Docker image⁠
  • Summary⁠
  • System Requirements⁠
    • With MariaDB/PostgreSQL and Redis on the same host⁠
    • With MariaDB/PostgreSQL and Redis hosted on another server⁠
  • Prerequisites⁠
    • Cleaning⁠
    • Ports⁠
    • DNS setup⁠
    • DNS records and reverse PTR⁠
    • Testing⁠
  • Installation⁠
    • 1 - Prepare your environment⁠
    • 2 - Postfixadmin installation⁠
    • 3 - Rainloop installation (optional)⁠
    • 4 - Done, congratulation ! :tada:⁠
  • Rancher Catalog⁠
  • Ansible Playbooks⁠
  • Environment variables⁠
  • Automatic GPG encryption of all your emails⁠
    • How does it work ?⁠
    • Enable automatic GPG encryption⁠
    • Import your public key⁠
    • Import all recipients public keys⁠
    • Specify another GPG keyserver⁠
    • Run other GPG options⁠
  • Relaying from other networks⁠
  • SSL certificates⁠
    • Let's Encrypt certificates generated by Traefik⁠
    • Custom certificates⁠
    • Testing⁠
  • MTA-STS⁠
  • Third-party Clamav signature databases⁠
    • Required Ports⁠
    • Enable clamav-unofficial-sigs⁠
  • Unbound DNS resolver⁠
  • PostgreSQL support⁠
  • LDAP support⁠
  • IPv6 support⁠
  • Persistent files and folders in /mnt/docker/mail Docker volume⁠
  • Override postfix configuration⁠
  • Custom configuration for Dovecot⁠
  • Postfix blacklist⁠
  • Email client settings⁠
  • Components⁠
  • Migration from Traefik 1 to 2⁠
  • Migration from 1.0 to 1.1⁠
  • Migration from hardware/mailserver to mailserver2/mailserver⁠
  • Community projects⁠
  • Some useful Thunderbird extensions⁠

⁠System Requirements

Please check, if your system meets the following minimum requirements:

⁠With MariaDB/PostgreSQL and Redis on the same host

⁠With MariaDB/PostgreSQL and Redis hosted on another server

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⁠Prerequisites

⁠Cleaning

Please remove any web server and mail services running on your server. I recommend using a clean installation of your preferred distribution. If you are using Debian, remember to remove the default MTA Exim4:

# apt-get purge exim4*

Also make sure that no other application is interfering with mail server configuration:

# netstat -tulpn | grep -E -w '25|80|110|143|443|465|587|993|995|4190'

If this command returns any results please remove or stop the application running on that port.

⁠Ports

If you have a firewall, unblock the following ports, according to your needs:

⁠DNS setup

I recommend you to use hardware/nsd-dnssec⁠ as an authoritative name server with DNSSEC capabilities. NSD is an authoritative only, high performance, simple and open source name server.

⁠DNS records and reverse PTR

A correct DNS setup is required, this step is very important.

Notes:

• Make sure that the PTR record of your IP matches the FQDN (default: mail.domain.tld) of your mailserver host. This record is usually set in your web hosting interface.
• {{selector}} defaults to mail unless changed via DKIM_SELECTOR
• DKIM, SPF and DMARC records are recommended to build a good reputation score.
• The DKIM public key will be available on host after the container startup:

/mnt/docker/mail/dkim/domain.tld/{{selector}}.public.key

To regenerate your public and private keys, remove the /mnt/docker/mail/dkim/domain.tld folder. By default a 1024-bit key is generated, you can increase this size by setting the DKIM_KEY_LENGTH environment variable with a higher value. Check your domain registrar support to verify that it supports a TXT record long enough for a key larger than 1024 bits.

These DNS record will raise your trust reputation score and reduce abuse of your domain name. You can find more information here:

• http://www.openspf.org/⁠
• http://www.opendkim.org/⁠
• https://dmarc.org/⁠
• http://arc-spec.org/⁠

⁠Testing

You can audit your mailserver with the following assessment services:

• https://www.mail-tester.com/⁠
• https://www.hardenize.com/⁠
• https://observatory.mozilla.org/⁠
• https://www.emailprivacytester.com/⁠ (MUA side)

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⁠Installation

⁠1 - Prepare your environment

:bulb: The reverse proxy used in this setup is Traefik⁠, but you can use the solution of your choice (Nginx, Apache, Haproxy, Caddy, H2O, etc pp).

:warning: This docker image may not work with some hardened Linux distribution using security-enhancing kernel patches like GrSecurity, please use a supported platform⁠.

# Create a new docker network for Traefik (IPv4 only)
docker network create http_network
# If you want to support IPv6, please refer to [IPv6 support]

# Create the required folders and files
mkdir -p /mnt/docker/traefik/acme && cd /mnt/docker \
&& curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mailserver2/mailserver/master/docker-compose.sample.yml -o docker-compose.yml \
&& curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mailserver2/mailserver/master/sample.env -o .env \
&& curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mailserver2/mailserver/master/traefik.sample.toml -o traefik/traefik.toml \
&& curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mailserver2/mailserver/master/file.sample.toml -o traefik/file.toml \
&& touch traefik/acme/acme.json \
&& chmod 600 docker-compose.yml .env traefik/traefik.toml traefik/file.toml traefik/acme/acme.json

Edit the .env and traefik.toml, adapt to your needs, then start all services:

docker-compose up -d

⁠2 - Postfixadmin installation

PostfixAdmin is a web based interface used to manage mailboxes, virtual domains and aliases.

• Docker image: https://github.com/hardware/postfixadmin⁠
• How to setup: Postfixadmin initial configuration⁠

⁠3 - Rainloop installation (optional)

Rainloop is a simple, modern and fast web mail front end with Sieve scripts support (filters and vacation message), GPG and a modern user interface.

• Docker image: https://github.com/hardware/rainloop⁠
• How to setup: Rainloop initial configuration⁠

⁠4 - Done, congratulation ! :tada:

At first launch, the container takes few minutes to generate SSL certificates (if needed), DKIM keypair generation and update Clamav database, all of this takes some time (1/2 minutes). This image comes with a snake-oil self-signed certificate, please use your own trusted certificates. See below⁠ for configuration.

List of webservices available:

Traefik dashboard use a basic authentication (user:admin, password:12345), the password can be encoded in MD5, SHA1 and BCrypt. You can use htpasswd ⁠ to generate those ones. Users can be specified directly in the traefik.toml file. Rspamd dashboard use the password defined in your docker-compose.yml.

You can check the startup logs with this command:

# docker logs -f mailserver

[INFO] Let's encrypt live directory found
[INFO] Using /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.domain.tld folder
[INFO] Creating DKIM keys for domain domain.tld
[INFO] Database hostname found in /etc/hosts
[INFO] Fetchmail forwarding is enabled.
[INFO] Automatic GPG encryption is enabled.
[INFO] ManageSieve protocol is enabled.
[INFO] POP3 protocol is enabled.
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2017-08-26T11:06:58.885562+00:00 mail root: s6-supervise : spawning clamd process
2017-08-26T11:06:59.059077+00:00 mail root: s6-supervise : spawning freshclam process
2017-08-26T11:06:59.395214+00:00 mail root: s6-supervise : spawning rspamd process
2017-08-26T11:07:01.615597+00:00 mail root: s6-supervise : spawning unbound process
2017-08-26T11:07:01.870856+00:00 mail root: s6-supervise : spawning postfix process
2017-08-26T11:07:03.303536+00:00 mail root: s6-supervise : spawning dovecot process
...

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⁠Rancher Catalog

https://github.com/hardware/mailserver-rancher⁠

This catalog provides a basic template to easily deploy an email server based on hardware/mailserver⁠ very quickly. To use it, just add this repository to your Rancher system as a catalog in Admin > Settings page and follow the readme⁠. This catalog has been initiated by @MichelDiz⁠.

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⁠Ansible Playbooks

If you use Ansible, I recommend you to go to see @ksylvan⁠ playbooks here: https://github.com/ksylvan/docker-mail-server⁠

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⁠Environment variables

*1) DBPASS is NOT required when using LDAP authentication

• Use DEBUG_MODE to enable the debug mode. Switch to true to enable verbose logging for postfix, dovecot, rspamd and Unbound. To debug components separately, use this syntax: DEBUG_MODE=postfix,rspamd.
• VMAIL_SUBDIR is the mail location subdirectory name /var/mail/vhosts/%domain/%user/$subdir. For more information, read this: https://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home⁠
• PASSWORD_SCHEME for compatible schemes, read this: https://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes⁠
• Currently, only a single RECIPIENT_DELIMITER is supported. Support for multiple delimiters will arrive with Dovecot v2.3.
• FETCHMAIL_INTERVAL must be a number between 1 and 59 minutes.
• Use DISABLE_DNS_RESOLVER if you have some DNS troubles and DNSSEC lookup issues with the local DNS resolver.
• Use DISABLE_RSPAMD_MODULE to disable any module listed here: https://rspamd.com/doc/modules/⁠
• OPENDKIM_KEY_LENGTH has been renamed to DKIM_KEY_LENGTH, but falls back to OPENDKIM_KEY_LENGTH for backwards compatability

When using LDAP authentication the following additional variables become available. All DBUSER, DBNAME and DBPASS variables will not be used in this case: