from https://blog.raphaelpiccolo.com/fr/post/show/852

complete mail server with docker

the host hosting the mail server is mail.raphaelpiccolo.com

the domain is the part after the @. it means that emails will be sendable to *@raphaelpiccolo.com compose

create this docker-compose.yml file :

mail: image: tvial/docker-mailserver:stable restart: always container_name: mail ports: # smtp (accept starttls) for transfer

  • “25:25” # esmtp (accept starttls) for submission
  • “587:587” # esmtp (forced encryption) for submission # - “465:465” # imap4 (accept starttls) for retrieval
  • “143:143” # imap4 (forced encryption) for retrieval
  • “993:993” # pop3 (accept starttls) for retrieval # - “110:110” # pop3 (forced encryption) for retrieval # - “995:995” cap_add:
  • NET_ADMIN
  • SYS_PTRACE hostname: mail.raphaelpiccolo.com domainname: raphaelpiccolo.com volumes:
  • ./mail/maildata:/var/mail
  • ./mail/mailstate:/var/mail-state
  • ./mail/maillogs:/var/log/mail
  • ./mail/config/:/tmp/docker-mailserver/
  • ./traefik/acme.json:/etc/letsencrypt/acme.json:ro environment:
  • “SSL_TYPE=letsencrypt”
  • “SPOOF_PROTECTION=1”

only useful to generate the https certificate used in mailserver

mailssl: image: containous/whoami container_name: mailssl labels:

  • traefik.enable=true

  • traefik.http.routers.mail.rule=Host(mail.raphaelpiccolo.com)

  • traefik.http.services.mail.loadbalancer.server.port=143

  • traefik.http.routers.mail.tls.certresolver=le

  • traefik.http.routers.mail.entrypoints=websecure

  • traefik.http.routers.mail.middlewares=securityheaders

    webmail: image: hardware/rainloop restart: always container_name: webmail depends_on:

  • mail volumes:

  • ./webmail:/rainloop/data environment:

  • LOG_TO_STDOUT=true labels:

  • traefik.enable=true

  • traefik.http.routers.webmail.rule=Host(webmail.raphaelpiccolo.com)

  • traefik.http.routers.webmail.tls.certresolver=le

  • traefik.http.routers.webmail.entrypoints=websecure

  • traefik.http.routers.webmail.middlewares=securityheaders

get the setup script

curl -o setup.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tomav/docker-mailserver/master/setup.sh; chmod a+x ./setup.sh

check the dns of your domain :

the A record tells what is the ip of the server

IN A X.X.X.X mail IN A X.X.X.X

the mx record tells which server to call when you need to send emails ending like this @raphaelpiccolo.com

they will call port 25 on this server

IN MX 10 mail.raphaelpiccolo.com.

create an email account

execute this command

bash setup.sh email add contact@raphaelpiccolo.com xxx

it will create a line in the file

emacs config/postfix-accounts.cf contact@raphaelpiccolo.com|xxxxxxxxxx

catchall address:

now every mails sent to *@raphaelpiccolo.com will be redirected to contact@raphaelpiccolo.com

emacs config/postfix-virtual.cf

@raphaelpiccolo.com contact@raphaelpiccolo.com

test working

to test that local smtp is working and that the mailserver delivers the mails to the mailbox :

docker-compose up -d —force-recreate mail

swaks -t contact@raphaelpiccolo.com -f contact@raphaelpiccolo.com —header “Subject: foo”

will show this for success

250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as EEF106F804EE

you can see the delivered mail in maildata/raphaelpiccolo.com/contact/new

you can download this mail from your phone or from a webmail. do not send directly our mails to spam :)

DKIM to sign the message

run this to create keys

bash setup.sh config dkim

it will create this file containing what you should add in your dns

emacs ./config/opendkim/keys/raphaelpiccolo.com/mail.txt

then add this in dns

mail._domainkey IN TXT ( “v=DKIM1; h=sha256; k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA8XOWBJea+/0q8FOnbdWx7micDDhXv5r4dYlF6fLnA8nOzm6OAUZpppD8nXZN5SbBU9UxVRJcmBe/cVUaXbgL9vo5TxcjYpEOpx5/1nd3GsgNsPm9Ur8DhOTBN0yKSRfbRNWJXSL273jP7j/9heQI3ah4KUOh3LIjT5xCGyd3vlZTZ2/Qio” “V0xC5zckkS7HNaH3Bi655fMvlXhULM79mvw2aJAG83JfPc4ybwAPthFTIMsxyQ9sAIiEpBP2+OHscL4H42ul0MoAxrNTUW468QD5RuruKA3z5IBBngwKu7EELJQduSoQV1XfZB7rQCOMjtFCs6jpHu9Izr2CyUgBBeewIDAQAB” )

the spf record tells which server are authorized to send emails

authorise all the servers listed in mx. ”~” means no problem if its another server consider switching to ”-” when everything works

IN TXT “v=spf1 mx ~all”

dmarc record uses dkim and spf for more quality

_dmarc IN TXT “v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:dmarc.report@raphaelpiccolo.com; ruf=mailto:dmarc.report@raphaelpiccolo.com; sp=none; ri=86400”

now you can restart and test

docker-compose up -d —force-recreate mail

rainloop

its a webmail, it connects to the server to retrieve emails. (you can also configure email reception directly on your phone)

use default password to first log

https://webmail.raphaelpiccolo.com/?admin admin 12345

then change password

then add a domain : raphaelpiccolo.com

imap: server : mail.raphaelpiccolo.com port: 143 security : starttls

smtp server : mail.raphaelpiccolo.com port: 587 security : starttls use authentification

the whitelist can stay empty

multiple domains

if you want to add a new domain to the existing server

configure mx on new.com to point to raphaelpiccolo.com

add a new account for the new domain :

bash setup.sh email add contact@new.com xxx

generate dkim agaim

add dkim + spf + dmarc in your dns

generate the ssl certificate : replace this line

traefik.http.routers.mail.rule=Host(mail.raphaelpiccolo.com)

with

traefik.http.routers.mail.rule=Host(mail.raphaelpiccolo.com, mail.new.com, )

Mail Queue Management

Mails von bestimmten Absendern aus der Queue löschen

for f in f; done

Mails requeuen

postsuper -r