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hardware/mailserver

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Docker image

hardware/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, ratelimit 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

hardware/mailserver

System Requirements

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

With MariaDB/PostgreSQL and Redis on the same host

Type	Without ClamAV	With ClamAV
CPU	1 GHz	1 GHz
RAM	1.5 GiB	2 GiB

With MariaDB/PostgreSQL and Redis hosted on another server

Type	Without ClamAV	With ClamAV
CPU	1 GHz	1 GHz
RAM	512 MiB	1 GiB

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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 prefered distro. 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 :

Service	Software	Protocol	Port
SMTP	Postfix	TCP	25
HTTP	Nginx	TCP	80
POP3	Dovecot	TCP	110
IMAP	Dovecot	TCP	143
HTTPS	Nginx	TCP	443
SMTPS	Postfix	TCP	465
Submission	Postfix	TCP	587
IMAPS	Dovecot	TCP	993
POP3S	Dovecot	TCP	995
ManageSieve	Dovecot	TCP	4190

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.

HOSTNAME	CLASS	TYPE	PRIORITY	VALUE
mail	IN	A/AAAA	any	1.2.3.4
spam	IN	CNAME	any	mail.domain.tld.
webmail	IN	CNAME	any	mail.domain.tld.
postfixadmin	IN	CNAME	any	mail.domain.tld.
@	IN	MX	10	mail.domain.tld.
@	IN	TXT	any	"v=spf1 a mx ip4:SERVER_IPV4 ~all"
mail._domainkey	IN	TXT	any	"v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=YOUR DKIM Public Key"
_dmarc	IN	TXT	any	"v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:postmaster@domain.tld; ruf=mailto:admin@domain.tld; fo=0; adkim=s; aspf=s; pct=100; rf=afrf; sp=reject"

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.
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/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 OPENDKIM_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

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

⚠️ 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/hardware/mailserver/master/docker-compose.sample.yml -o docker-compose.yml \
&& curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hardware/mailserver/master/sample.env -o .env \
&& curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hardware/mailserver/master/traefik.sample.toml -o traefik/traefik.toml \
&& touch traefik/acme/acme.json \
&& chmod 600 docker-compose.yml .env traefik/traefik.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 webmail 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 ! 🎉

At first launch, the container takes few minutes to generate SSL certificates (if needed), DKIM keypair 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:

Service	URI
Traefik dashboard	https://mail.domain.tld/
Rspamd dashboard	https://spam.domain.tld/
Administration	https://postfixadmin.domain.tld/
Webmail	https://webmail.domain.tld/

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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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

Variable	Description	Type	Default value
VMAILUID	vmail user id	optional	1024
VMAILGID	vmail group id	optional	1024
VMAIL_SUBDIR	Individual mailbox' subdirectory	optional	mail
OPENDKIM_KEY_LENGTH	Size of your DKIM RSA key pair	optional	1024
DEBUG_MODE	Enable Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd and Unbound verbose logging	optional	false
PASSWORD_SCHEME	Passwords encryption scheme	optional	`SHA512-CRYPT`
DBDRIVER	Database type: mysql, pgsql, ldap	optional	mysql
DBHOST	Database instance ip/hostname	optional	mariadb
DBPORT	Database instance port	optional	3306 / 389 (sql/ldap)
DBUSER	Database username	optional	postfix
DBNAME	Database name	optional	postfix
DBPASS	Database password or location of a file containing it	required *1)	null
REDIS_HOST	Redis instance ip/hostname	optional	redis
REDIS_PORT	Redis instance port	optional	6379
REDIS_PASS	Redis database password or location of a file containing it	optional	null
REDIS_NUMB	Redis database number	optional	0
RSPAMD_PASSWORD	Rspamd WebUI and controller password or location of a file containing it	required	null
ADD_DOMAINS	Add additional domains to the mailserver separated by commas (needed for dkim keys etc.)	optional	null
RELAY_NETWORKS	Additional IPs or networks the mailserver relays without authentication	optional	null
WHITELIST_SPAM_ADDRESSES	List of whitelisted email addresses separated by commas	optional	null
DISABLE_RSPAMD_MODULE	List of disabled modules separated by commas	optional	null
DISABLE_CLAMAV	Disable virus scanning	optional	false
DISABLE_SIEVE	Disable ManageSieve protocol	optional	false
DISABLE_SIGNING	Disable DKIM/ARC signing	optional	false
DISABLE_GREYLISTING	Disable greylisting policy	optional	false
DISABLE_RATELIMITING	Disable ratelimiting policy	optional	true
DISABLE_DNS_RESOLVER	Disable the local DNS resolver	optional	false
DISABLE_SSL_WATCH	Disable watching of `acme.json` and the Let's Encrypt directory	optional	false
ENABLE_POP3	Enable POP3 protocol	optional	false
ENABLE_FETCHMAIL	Enable fetchmail forwarding	optional	false
ENABLE_ENCRYPTION	Enable automatic GPG encryption	optional	false
FETCHMAIL_INTERVAL	Fetchmail polling interval	optional	10
RECIPIENT_DELIMITER	RFC 5233 subaddress extension separator (single character only)	optional	+

*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/

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

Variable	Description	Type	Default value
LDAP_TLS_ENABLED	Enable TLS on LDAP	optional	false
LDAP_TLS_CA_FILE	The TLS CA File	required if LDAP_TLS_ENABLED
LDAP_TLS_FORCE	Force TLS connections	required if LDAP_TLS_ENABLED	false
LDAP_BIND	Bind to LDAP Server	optional	true
LDAP_BIND_DN	The DN to bind to	required if LDAP_BIND
LDAP_BIND_PW	LDAP password or location of a file containing it	required if LDAP_BIND
LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_BASE	The base DN for all lookus	required
LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_SCOPE	The default scope for all lookups (sub, base or one)	optional	sub
LDAP_DOMAIN_SEARCH_BASE	The search base for domain lookups	optional	${LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_BASE}
LDAP_DOMAIN_SEARCH_SCOPE	The search scope for domain lookups	optional	${LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_SCOPE}
LDAP_DOMAIN_FILTER	The search filter for domain lookups	required
LDAP_DOMAIN_ATTRIBUTE	The attibutes for domain lookup	required
LDAP_DOMAIN_FORMAT	The format for domain lookups	optional
LDAP_MAILBOX_SEARCH_BASE	The search base for mailbox lookups	optional	${LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_BASE}
LDAP_MAILBOX_SEARCH_SCOPE	The search scope for mailbox lookups	optional	${LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_SCOPE}
LDAP_MAILBOX_FILTER	The search filter for mailbox lookups	required
LDAP_MAILBOX_ATTRIBUTE	The attibutes for mailbox lookup	required
LDAP_MAILBOX_FORMAT	The format for domain mailbox	optional
LDAP_ALIAS_SEARCH_BASE	The search base for domain lookups	optional	${LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_BASE}
LDAP_ALIAS_SEARCH_SCOPE	The search scope for domain lookups	optional	${LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_SCOPE}
LDAP_ALIAS_FILTER	The search filter for domain lookups	required
LDAP_ALIAS_ATTRIBUTE	The attibutes for domain lookup	required
LDAP_ALIAS_FORMAT	The format for domain lookups	optional
LDAP_FORWARD_SEARCH_BASE	The search base for forward lookups	optional	${LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_BASE}
LDAP_FORWARD_SEARCH_SCOPE	The search scope for forward lookups	optional	${LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_SCOPE}
LDAP_FORWARD_FILTER	The search filter for forward lookups	optional
LDAP_FORWARD_ATTRIBUTE	The attibutes for forward lookup	optional
LDAP_FORWARD_FORMAT	The format for forward lookups	optional
LDAP_GROUP_SEARCH_BASE	The search base for group lookups	optional	${LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_BASE}
LDAP_GROUP_SEARCH_SCOPE	The search scope for group lookups	optional	${LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_SCOPE}
LDAP_GROUP_FILTER	The search filter for group lookups	optional
LDAP_GROUP_ATTRIBUTE	The attibutes for group lookup	optional
LDAP_GROUP_FORMAT	The format for group lookups	optional
LDAP_SENDER_SEARCH_BASE	The search base for sender lookups	optional	${LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_BASE}
LDAP_SENDER_SEARCH_SCOPE	The search scope for sender lookups	optional	${LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_SCOPE}
LDAP_SENDER_FILTER	The search filter for sender lookups	required
LDAP_SENDER_ATTRIBUTE	The attibutes for sender lookup	required
LDAP_SENDER_FORMAT	The format for sender lookups	required
LDAP_DOVECOT_USER_ATTRS	Dovecot user attribute mapping	required
LDAP_DOVECOT_USER_FILTER	Dovecot user search filter	required
LDAP_DOVECOT_PASS_ATTRS	Dovecot user password attribute mapping	required
LDAP_DOVECOT_PASS_FILTER	Dovecot user password filter	required
LDAP_DOVECOT_ITERATE_ATTRS	Dovecot user iterate attributes	optional
LDAP_DOVECOT_ITERATE_FILTER	Dovecot user iterate filters	optional
LDAP_MASTER_USER_ENABLED	Enable LDAP master users	optional	false
LDAP_MASTER_USER_SEPARATOR	LDAP master user seperator	required if LDAP_MASTER_USER_ENABLED	*
LDAP_MASTER_USER_SEARCH_BASE	LDAP master user search base	required if LDAP_MASTER_USER_ENABLED	${LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_BASE}
LDAP_MASTER_USER_SEARCH_SCOPE	LDAP master user scope	required if LDAP_MASTER_USER_ENABLED	${LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_SCOPE}
LDAP_DOVECOT_MASTER_USER_ATTRS	LDAP master user dovecot attributes	required if LDAP_MASTER_USER_ENABLED
LDAP_DOVECOT_MASTER_USER_FILTER	LDAP master user dovecot search filter	required if LDAP_MASTER_USER_ENABLED

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Automatic GPG encryption of all your emails

How does it work ?

Zeyple catches email from the postfix queue, then encrypts it if a corresponding recipient's GPG public key is found. Finally, it puts it back into the queue.

Enable automatic GPG encryption

❗ Please enable this option carefully and only if you know what you are doing.

Switch ENABLE_ENCRYPTION environment variable to true. The public keyring will be saved in /var/mail/zeyple/keys. Please don't change the default value of RECIPIENT_DELIMITER (default = "+"). If encryption is enabled with another delimiter, Zeyple could have an unpredictable behavior.

Import your public key

⚠️ Make sure to send your public key on a gpg keyserver before to run the following command.

docker exec -ti mailserver encryption.sh import-key YOUR_KEY_ID

Import all recipients public keys

This command browses all /var/mail/vhosts/* domains directories and users subdirectories to find all the recipients addresses in the mailserver.

docker exec -ti mailserver encryption.sh import-all-keys

Specify another gpg keyserver

docker exec -ti mailserver encryption.sh import-key YOUR_KEY_ID hkp://pgp.mit.edu
docker exec -ti mailserver encryption.sh import-all-keys hkp://keys.gnupg.net

Run other GPG options

You can use all options of gpg command line except an already assigned parameter called --homedir.

docker exec -ti mailserver encryption.sh --list-keys
docker exec -ti mailserver encryption.sh --fingerprint
docker exec -ti mailserver encryption.sh --refresh-keys
docker exec -ti mailserver encryption.sh ...

Documentation : https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Operational-GPG-Commands.html

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Relaying from other networks

The RELAY_NETWORKS is a space separated list of additional IP addresses and subnets (in CIDR notation) which the mailserver relays without authentication. Hostnames are possible, but generally disadvised. IPv6 addresses must be surrounded by square brackets. You can also specify an absolut path to a file with IPs and networks so you can keep it on a mounted volume. Note that the file is not monitored for changes.

You can use this variable to allow other local containers to relay via the mailserver. Typically you would set this to the IP range of the default docker bridge (172.17.0.0/16) or the default network of your compose. If you are unable to determine, you might just add all RFC 1918 addresses 192.168.0.0/16 172.16.0.0/12 10.0.0.0/8

⚠️ A value like 0.0.0.0/0 will turn your mailserver into an open relay!

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SSL certificates

Let's Encrypt certificates generated by Traefik

To use Let's Encrypt certificates generated by Traefik, mount a new docker volume like this :

mailserver:
  image: hardware/mailserver
  volumes:
    - /mnt/docker/traefik/acme:/etc/letsencrypt/acme
    ...

The startup script read the acme.json* file generated by Traefik and split into pem files all appropriate certificates (CN = mail.domain.tld).

💡 *Compatible with both Traefik >=1.5.0 and 1.6+ ACME json format, with SAN and wildcard certificates support.

docker logs -f mailserver

[INFO] Search for SSL certificates generated by Traefik
[INFO] acme.json found with ACME v2 format, dumping into pem files
[INFO] Let's encrypt live directory found
[INFO] Using /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.domain.tld folder

Don't forget to add a new traefik frontend rule somewhere in your docker-compose.yml to generate a certificate for your mailserver FQDN (default : mail.domain.tld) subdomain.

# docker-compose.yml

labels:
  - traefik.frontend.rule=Host:mail.${DOMAIN}

Alternatively, you can specify your domains in the traefik.toml to generate a SAN certificate :

[acme]
onHostRule = false

[[acme.domains]]
main = "domain.tld"
sans = ["mail.domain.tld", "spam.domain.tld", "postfixadmin.domain.tld", "webmail.domain.tld"]

Or a wildcard certificate :

⚠️ ACME wildcard certificates can only be generated thanks to a DNS-01 challenge.

[acme]
onHostRule = false

# https://docs.traefik.io/v1.6/configuration/acme/#dnschallenge
[acme.dnsChallenge]
provider = "your_dns_provider"
delayBeforeCheck = 0

[[acme.domains]]
main = "*.domain.tld"

If the startup script does not find the appropriate SSL certificate and private key, look at Traefik's logs to see what's going on.

docker logs -f mailserver

[INFO] Search for SSL certificates generated by Traefik
[INFO] ...
[INFO] ...
[INFO] acme.json found with ACME v2 format, dumping into pem files
[ERROR] The certificate for mail.domain.tld or the private key was not found !
[INFO] Don't forget to add a new traefik frontend rule to generate a certificate for mail.domain.tld subdomain
[INFO] Look /mnt/docker/traefik/acme/dump.log and 'docker logs traefik' for more information

# traefik.toml

[acme]
acmeLogging = true

docker-compose restart traefik && docker logs -f traefik

Custom certificates

You can use Let's Encrypt or any other certification authority. Setup your docker-compose.yml like this :

mailserver:
  image: hardware/mailserver
  volumes:
    - /mnt/docker/ssl:/etc/letsencrypt
    ...

Request your certificates in /mnt/docker/ssl/live/mail.domain.tld with an ACME client if you use Let's Encrypt, otherwise get your SSL certificates with the method provided by your CA and put everything needed in this directory.

Required files in this folder :

💡 If you only have the fullchain.pem and privkey.pem, the startup script extract automatically the cert.pem and chain.pem from fullchain.pem.

Filename	Description
privkey.pem	Private key for the certificate
cert.pem	Server certificate only
chain.pem	Root and intermediate certificates only, excluding server certificate
fullchain.pem	All certificates, including server certificate. This is concatenation of cert.pem and chain.pem

Example with acme.sh :

acme.sh --install-cert -d example.com \
--ca-file        ${VOLUMES_ROOT_PATH}/ssl/live/mail.domain.tld/chain.pem  \
--cert-file      ${VOLUMES_ROOT_PATH}/ssl/live/mail.domain.tld/cert.pem  \
--key-file       ${VOLUMES_ROOT_PATH}/ssl/live/mail.domain.tld/privkey.pem  \
--fullchain-file ${VOLUMES_ROOT_PATH}/ssl/live/mail.domain.tld/fullchain.pem \
--reloadcmd      "docker restart mailserver"

Notes :

Important : When renewing certificates, you must restart the mailserver container.
If you do not use your own trusted certificates or those generated by Traefik, a default self-signed certificate (RSA 4096 bits SHA2) is added here : /mnt/docker/mail/ssl/selfsigned/{cert.pem, privkey.pem}.
If you have generated a ECDSA certificate with a curve other than prime256v1 (NIST P-256), you need to change the Postfix TLS configuration because of a change in OpenSSL >= 1.1.0. For example, if you use secp384r1 elliptic curve with your ECDSA certificate, change the tls_eecdh_strong_curve value :

# /mnt/docker/mail/postfix/custom.conf

tls_eecdh_strong_curve = secp384r1

Additional informations about this issue :

openssl/openssl#2033
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1473971

Testing

# IMAP STARTTLS - 143 port (IMAP)
openssl s_client -connect mail.domain.tld:143 -starttls imap -tlsextdebug

# SMTP STARTTLS - 587 port (Submission)
openssl s_client -connect mail.domain.tld:587 -starttls smtp -tlsextdebug

# IMAP SSL/TLS - 993 port (IMAPS)
openssl s_client -connect mail.domain.tld:993 -tlsextdebug

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MTA-STS

MTA-STS is a new standard that makes it possible to send downgrade-resistant email over SMTP. In that sense, it is like an alternative to DANE but it does this by piggybacking on the browser Certificate Authority model, not DNSSEC.

To enable Strict Transport Security on your mailserver configure the following things :

Add a TLSRPT DNS TXT record at _smtp._tls on your domain, e.g. _smtp._tls.domain.tld, with something like v=TLSRPTv1; rua=mailto:postmaster@domain.tld.
Add a MTA-STS DNS TXT record at _mta-sts on your domain, e.g. _mta-sts.domain.tld, with something like v=STSv1; id=2018072801.
Add a subdomain mta-sts to your domain (note the lack of an underscore) and serve a policy file on https://mta-sts.domain.tld/.well-known/mta-sts.txt.

Here is an example policy file:

version: STSv1
mode: enforce
max_age: 10368000
mx: mail.domain.tld

Test your mail domain using a MTA-STS validator like Hardenize. You can also add your domain name in the STARTTLS Policy List maintained by EFF.

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Third-party clamav signature databases

Clamav-unofficial-sigs provides a simple way to download and update third-party signature databases provided by Sanesecurity, FOXHOLE, OITC, Scamnailer, BOFHLAND, CRDF, Porcupine, Securiteinfo, MalwarePatrol, Yara-Rules Project, etc.

Readme : https://github.com/extremeshok/clamav-unofficial-sigs

Required Ports

Software	Protocol	Port
Rsync	TCP	873
Curl	TCP	443

Enable clamav-unofficial-sigs

Create your user.conf file under /mnt/docker/mail/clamav-unofficial-sigs directory to configure clamav-unofficial-sigs updater. This file override the default configuration specified in os.conf and master.conf. Don't forget, once you have completed the configuration of this file, set the value of user_configuration_complete to yes otherwise the script will not be able to execute. As Yara rules are broken with clamav ≥ 0.100, we disable Yara rules for now.

# /mnt/docker/mail/clamav-unofficial-sigs/user.conf

# =========================
# MalwarePatrol : https://www.malwarepatrol.net
# MalwarePatrol 2016 (free) clamav signatures
#
# 1. Sign up for an account : https://www.malwarepatrol.net/signup-free.shtml
# 2. You will receive an email containing your password/receipt number
# 3. Login to your account at malwarePatrol
# 4. In My Accountpage, choose the ClamAV list you will download. Free subscribers only get ClamAV Basic, commercial subscribers have access to ClamAV Extended. Do not use the agressive lists.
# 5. In the download URL, you will see 3 parameters: receipt, product and list, enter them in the variables below.
# malwarepatrol_receipt_code="YOUR-RECEIPT-NUMBER"
# malwarepatrol_product_code="8"
# malwarepatrol_list="clamav_basic"
# malwarepatrol_free="yes"

# =========================
# SecuriteInfo : https://www.SecuriteInfo.com
# SecuriteInfo 2015 free clamav signatures
#
# Usage of SecuriteInfo 2015 free clamav signatures : https://www.securiteinfo.com
# - 1. Sign up for a free account : https://www.securiteinfo.com/clients/customers/signup
# - 2. You will receive an email to activate your account and then a followup email with your login name
# - 3. Login and navigate to your customer account : https://www.securiteinfo.com/clients/customers/account
# - 4. Click on the Setup tab
# - 5. You will need to get your unique identifier from one of the download links, they are individual for every user
# - 5.1. The 128 character string is after the http://www.securiteinfo.com/get/signatures/
# - 5.2. Example https://www.securiteinfo.com/get/signatures/your_unique_and_very_long_random_string_of_characters/securiteinfo.hdb
#   Your 128 character authorisation signature would be : your_unique_and_very_long_random_string_of_characters
# - 6. Enter the authorisation signature into the config securiteinfo_authorisation_signature: replacing YOUR-SIGNATURE-NUMBER with your authorisation signature from the link
# securiteinfo_authorisation_signature="YOUR-SIGNATURE-NUMBER"

# We disable Yara rules for now because they are broken with clamav releases > 0.100
yararulesproject_enabled="no"
enable_yararules="no"

# After you have completed the configuration of this file, set the value to "yes"
user_configuration_complete="yes"

If the startup script detects this file, clamav-unofficial-sigs is automatically enabled and third-party databases downloaded under /mnt/docker/mail/clamav after clamav startup. Once the databases are downloaded, a SIGUSR2 signal is sent to clamav to reload the signature databases :

docker logs -f mailserver

[INFO] clamav-unofficial-sigs is enabled (user configuration found)
[...]
s6-supervise : clamav unofficial signature update running
s6-supervise : virus database downloaded, spawning clamd process
[...]
s6-supervise : clamav unofficial signature update done
clamd[xxxxxx]: Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav
clamd[xxxxxx]: Database correctly reloaded (6812263 signatures)

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Unbound DNS resolver

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver inside the container, you can control it with the remote server control utility.

Some examples :

# Display server status
docker exec -ti mailserver unbound-control status

# Print server statistics
docker exec -ti mailserver unbound-control stats_noreset

# Reload the server. This flushes the cache and reads the config file.
docker exec -ti mailserver unbound-control reload

Documentation : https://www.unbound.net/documentation/unbound-control.html

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PostgreSQL support

PostgreSQL can be used instead of MariaDB. You have to make some changes in the original docker-compose.yml file to use this DBMS :

mailserver:
  environment:
    - DBDRIVER=pgsql
    - DBHOST=postgres
    - DBPORT=5432
  depends_on:
    - postgres

postfixadmin:
  environment:
    - DBDRIVER=pgsql
    - DBHOST=postgres
    - DBPORT=5432
  depends_on:
    - postgres

rainloop:
  depends_on:
    - postgres

# Database
# https://github.com/docker-library/postgres
# https://postgresql.org/
postgres:
  image: postgres:10.5-alpine
  container_name: postgres
  restart: ${RESTART_MODE}
  stop_signal: SIGINT                 # Fast Shutdown mode
  # Info : These variables are ignored when the volume already exists (if databases was created before).
  environment:
    - POSTGRES_DB=postfix
    - POSTGRES_USER=postfix
    - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${DATABASE_USER_PASSWORD}
  volumes:
    - ${VOLUMES_ROOT_PATH}/pgsql/db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
  networks:
    - mail_network

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LDAP support

This mailserver supports LDAP now aswell. Please keep in mind that LDAP itself is an already complicated system and using this mailserver with LDAP will require you to already have a deeper understanding on how LDAP, postfix and dovecot works. Due to the nature of LDAP there is no "default" setup you can or is suggested to be used. This means a lot of configuration is required to set this mailserver up with your LDAP system and it will definetly not work out of the box.

To enable LDAP you have to set DBDRIVER to ldap. DBHOST and DBPORT must point to the LDAP server used. DBUSER, DBNAME, DBPASS enviroment variables will not be used in this case.

If you want to use TLS set LDAP_TLS_ENABLED to true and specify a LDAP_TLS_CA_FILE. If you want to require the use of TLS set LDAP_TLS_FORCE to true.

If you want to bind to the LDAP server (default) set LDAP_BIND to true (default) and give your bind user dn (full path) as LDAP_BIND_DN and password as LDAP_BIND_PW. If a path to a existing file is given in LDAP_BIND_PW the content of the file will be used instead.

All lookups will by default use LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_BASE as base and LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_SCOPE as scope. But for any query a specific base and scope can be provided aswell. Valid scopes are: sub for subtree meaning all nodes below the base. one for all direct child nodes of the base and one for only the base node itself.

Unlike with postfixadmin where all tables are fixed, this mailserver is intended to work with existing ldap structures. This requires all lookups to be specified by you.

There are 4 required and 2 optional lookups for postfix that have to be provided by you. Each consists of 5 variables. The loopups are: Domain, Mailbox, Alias and Sender (all 4 required) and Forward and Group (optional). Each has the enviroment variables LDAP_XXX_SEARCH_BASE, LDAP_XXX_SEARCH_SCOPE, LDAP_XXX_FILTER, LDAP_XXX_ATTRIBUTE and LDAP_XXXN_FORMAT (optional) where XXX* must be replaced with DOMAIN, MAILBOX, ALIAS, SENDER, FORWARD or GROUP. E.g. LDAP_DOMAIN_SEARCH_BASE or LDAP_MAILBOX_FILTER

The LDAP_XXX_SEARCH_BASE is the search base dn. It will default to LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_BASE as LDAP_XXX_SEARCH_SCOPE will default to LDAP_DEFAULT_SEARCH_SCOPE (which defaults to sub).

The LDAP_XXX_FILTER must be a valid LDAP query filter. For a documentation of LDAP query filters you can look at https://ldap.com/ldap-filters/. For a list of valid replacement tokens please look at http://www.postfix.org/ldap_table.5.html in the section query_filter. Some examples:

LDAP_DOMAIN_FILTER="(&(mail=*@%s)(objectClass=mailAccount))"

LDAP_MAILBOX_FILTER="(&(mail=%s)(objectClass=mailAccount))"

LDAP_SENDER_FILTER="(&(|(mail=%s)(mailalias=%s))(objectClass=mailAccount))"

The LDAP_XXX_ATTRIBUTE specifies which attribute of the found LDAP objects will be used. Usually these are either mail, uid, mailalias or mailacceptinggeneralid but may be completly different ones depending on your LDAP setup.

LDAP_XXX_FORMAT can be used to reformat the result. E.g. you can use LDAP_MAILBOX_FORMAT="/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%s/mail/" to set a fixed path for the mailbox location if the path is not stored within LDAP.

The optional FORWARD and GROUP lookups are technically identical to the ALIAS lookup and could be used interchangeably but are intended for additional alias/group/forward lookups. So you can use aliases using an alias field in your user objects. Forwards as source and destination mapping fields in forwarding objects and group address and group member emails in group objects. But you can also use them in different ways to suit your system.

Then you also have to provide the lookups for dovecot. These will probably be similar to your postfix lookups but may and will differ in some cases. The variables neccessary are LDAP_DOVECOT_USER_ATTRS, LDAP_DOVECOT_USER_FILTER, LDAP_DOVECOT_PASS_ATTRS, LDAP_DOVECOT_PASS_FILTER, LDAP_DOVECOT_ITERATE_ATTRS, LDAP_DOVECOT_ITERATE_FILTER. They correspond directly to the dovecot variables of the same name. While the user and pass attributes and filters are required, the iterate attributes and filters are not. For more detailed information please look at https://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/LDAP/Userdb. Note that multiple attribures may be required per query and must be provided in a different form than for postfix! Here are some examples:

LDAP_DOVECOT_USER_ATTRS="=home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/,=mail=maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/mail/,mailuserquota=quota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%\$$"
LDAP_DOVECOT_USER_FILTER="(&(mail=%u)(objectClass=mailAccount))"
LDAP_DOVECOT_PASS_ATTRS="mail=user,userPassword=password"
LDAP_DOVECOT_PASS_FILTER="(&(mail=%u)(objectClass=mailAccount))"
LDAP_DOVECOT_ITERATE_ATTRS="mail=user"
LDAP_DOVECOT_ITERATE_FILTER="(objectClass=mailAccount)"

This mailserver also supports the user of master users that are allowed to log into other users mailboxes using their own password. This can be used e.g. for shared mailboxes or external imap services that should be able to connect to all inboxes via imap while not knowing the users passwords. To enable the use of master users set LDAP_MASTER_USER_ENABLED to true. With LDAP_MASTER_USER_SEPARATOR the separator can be specified (default is *). So you can log in with the username normaluser@yoursystem.com*masteruser@yoursystem.com or normaluser*masteruser if you only use usernames as logins. The password then has to be the password of the master user. LDAP_MASTER_USER_SEARCH_BASE, LDAP_MASTER_USER_SEARCH_SCOPE, LDAP_DOVECOT_MASTER_USER_ATTRS and LDAP_DOVECOT_MASTER_USER_FILTER work analogous to the dovecot user lookups. For more detailed documentation please look at https://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers . Note that %u is the master user name in this case and %{login_user} can be used to get the user name of the user to be loged in.

LDAP_MASTER_USER_ENABLED=true
LDAP_DOVECOT_MASTER_PASS_ATTRS="mail=user,userPassword=password"
LDAP_DOVECOT_MASTER_PASS_FILTER="(&(mail=%u)(st=%{login_user})(objectClass=mailAccount))"

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IPv6 support

If you want to support inbound IPv6 connections, you need to create a docker network with IPv6 enabled, otherwise, you may have some issues with docker internal networking.

The procedure is quite simple:

Remove your old http_network (if you already have created it)

docker network rm http_network

Choose a private ipv6 address range (/64)
- You can easily get a unique private IPv6 address range on SimpleDNS website
Create a docker network with IPv6 enabled

# Replace subnet mask with your own "Combined/CID"
docker network create http_network --ipv6 --subnet "fd00:0000:0000:0000::/64"

Append this to your docker-compose.yml

# IPv6NAT
# https://github.com/robbertkl/docker-ipv6nat
# https://hub.docker.com/r/robbertkl/ipv6nat/
ipv6nat:
  image: robbertkl/ipv6nat
  container_name: ipv6nat
  restart: ${RESTART_MODE}
  volumes:
    - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
    - /lib/modules:/lib/modules:ro
  depends_on:
    - mailserver
  cap_add:
    - NET_ADMIN
    - SYS_MODULE
  network_mode: "host"

Create a record named mail of type AAAA with your public IPv6 address in your DNS provider.

Done! This is all the configuration needed to enable inbound IPv6 support on this mailserver.

You can read more on how and why robbertkl/docker-ipv6nat container mimics NAT for IPv6 on his page.

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Persistent files and folders in /mnt/docker/mail Docker volume

/mnt/docker
└──mail
   ├──postfix
   |     custom.conf
   |     sender_access
   |  ├──spool (Postfix queues directory)
   │  │     defer
   │  │     flush
   │  │     hold
   │  │     maildrop
   │  │     ...
   ├──dovecot
   |     instances
   |     ssl-parameters.dat
   |  ├──conf.d (Custom dovecot configuration)
   ├──clamav (ClamAV databases directory)
   │     bytecode.cvd
   │     daily.cld
   │     main.cvd
   ├──clamav-unofficial-sigs
   │     user.conf
   ├──rspamd (Rspamd databases directory)
   │     rspamd.rrd
   |     stats.ucl
   ├──zeyple
   │  ├──keys (GPG public keyring)
   │  │     pubring.kbx
   │  │     trustdb.gpg
   │  │     ...
   ├──sieve
   │     default.sieve
   │     custom.sieve (custom default sieve rules for all users)
   ├──dkim
   │  ├──domain.tld
   │  │     private.key
   │  │     public.key
   ├──ssl
   │  ├──selfsigned (Auto-generated if no certificate found)
   │  │     cert.pem
   │  │     privkey.pem
   ├──vhosts
   │  ├──domain.tld
   │  │  ├──user
   │  │  │     .dovecot.sieve -> sieve/rainloop.user.sieve
   │  │  │     .dovecot.svbin
   │  │  │  ├──mail
   │  │  │  │  ├──.Archive
   │  │  │  │  ├──.Drafts
   │  │  │  │  ├──.Sent
   │  │  │  │  ├──.Spam
   │  │  │  │  ├──.Trash
   │  │  │  │  ├──cur
   │  │  │  │  ├──new
   │  │  │  │     ...
   │  │  │  ├──sieve
   │  │  │  │     rainloop.user.sieve (if using rainloop webmail)

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Override postfix configuration

Postfix default configuration can be overrided providing a custom configuration file at postfix format. This can be used to also add configuration that are not in default configuration. Postfix documentation remains the best place to find configuration options.

Each line in the provided file will be loaded into Postfix. Create a new file here /mnt/docker/mail/postfix/custom.conf and add your custom options inside.

To edit services in master.cf configuration file, SFP prefixes are available to indicate what you want to change.

S| = service entry (service/type=value)
F| = service field (service/type/field=value)
P| = service parameter (service/type/parameter=value)

Example :

# /mnt/docker/mail/postfix/custom.conf

# main.cf parameters
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP MyGreatMailServer
inet_protocols = ipv4
delay_notice_recipient = admin@domain.tld
delay_warning_time = 2h

# master.cf services
S|submission/inet=submission inet n       -       -       -       -       smtpd
P|submission/inet/syslog_name=postfix/submission-custom
P|submission/inet/smtpd_tls_security_level=may
P|submission/inet/smtpd_tls_ciphers=medium
F|smtp/unix/chroot=n

docker logs -f mailserver

[INFO] Override parameter in main.cf : smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP MyGreatMailServer
[INFO] Override parameter in main.cf : inet_protocols = ipv4
[INFO] Override parameter in main.cf : delay_notice_recipient = admin@domain.tld
[INFO] Override parameter in main.cf : delay_warning_time = 2h
[INFO] Override service entry in master.cf : submission/inet=submission inet n       -       -       -       -       smtpd
[INFO] Override service parameter in master.cf : submission/inet/syslog_name=postfix/submission-custom
[INFO] Override service parameter in master.cf : submission/inet/smtpd_tls_security_level=may
[INFO] Override service parameter in master.cf : submission/inet/smtpd_tls_ciphers=medium
[INFO] Override service field in master.cf : smtp/unix/chroot=n
[INFO] Custom Postfix configuration file loaded

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Custom configuration for dovecot

Sometimes you might want to add additional configuration parameters or override the default ones. You can do so by placing configuration files to the persistent folder /mnt/docker/mail/dovecot/conf.d.

Example:

# /mnt/docker/mail/dovecot/conf.d/20-imap.conf

protocol imap {

  mail_max_userip_connections = 100

}

# /mnt/docker/mail/dovecot/conf.d/90-quota.conf

plugin {

  quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+200M
  quota_exceeded_message = You have exceeded your mailbox quota.

}

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Postfix blacklist

To block some senders or an entire domain, create a new file named sender_access in /mnt/docker/mail/postfix.

# /mnt/docker/mail/postfix/sender_access
# Format : <address|domain> <action>

domain.tld REJECT
spam@domain2.tld REJECT

docker logs -f mailserver

NOQUEUE: reject: 554 5.7.1 <john.doe@domain.tld>: Sender address rejected: Access denied

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Email client settings

IMAP/SMTP username : user@domain.tld
Incoming IMAP server : mail.domain.tld (your FQDN)
Outgoing SMTP server : mail.domain.tld (your FQDN)
IMAP port : 993
SMTP port : 587
IMAP Encryption protocol : SSL/TLS
SMTP Encryption protocol : STARTTLS

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Components

Postfix 3.1.8
Dovecot 2.2.27
Rspamd 1.9.4
Fetchmail 6.3.26
ClamAV 0.100.3
Clamav Unofficial Sigs 5.6.2
Zeyple 1.2.2
Unbound 1.6.0
s6 2.8.0.1
Rsyslog 8.24.0
ManageSieve server

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Migration from 1.0 to 1.1

If you still use 1.0 version (bundled with Spamassassin, Amavisd...etc) which was available with the latest tag, you can follow the migration steps here :

https://github.com/hardware/mailserver/wiki/Migrating-from-1.0-stable-to-1.1-stable

Or stay with 1.0-legacy tag (not recommended).

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Community projects

ksylvan/docker-mail-server : Ansible playbooks to easily deploy hardware/mailserver.
rubentrancoso/mailserver-quicksetup : Automatic hardware/mailserver deployment on a digitalocean droplet.
NickBusey/HomelabOS - Automatic deployment on home servers with bastion host relay

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Some useful Thunderbird extensions

https://www.enigmail.net/
https://github.com/moisseev/rspamd-spamness
https://github.com/lieser/dkim_verifier

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Files

README.md

Latest commit

History

README.md

File metadata and controls

This docker image is no longer maintained.

hardware/mailserver

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 ! 🎉

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 1.0 to 1.1

Community projects

Some useful Thunderbird extensions