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Freeposte.io
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Simple yet functional and full-featured mail server as a set of Docker images.
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The idea behing Freeposte.io is identical to motivations that led to poste.io:
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providing a simple and maintainable mail server that is painless to manage and
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does not require more resources than necessary.
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People from poste.io did an amazing job at accomplishing this ; any company
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looking for a serious yet simple mail server with professional support should
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turn to them.
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This project is meant for free software supporters and hackers to reach the
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same level of functionality and still be able to host a complete mail server
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at little cost while running only FOSS, applying the KISS principle and being
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able to fine-tune some details if needed.
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General architecture
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====================
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The mail infrastructure is based on a standard MTA-LDA pattern :
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* Postfix for incoming and outgoing emails ;
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* Amavis as a filtering interface before delivery (with SpamaAssassin and ClamAV) ;
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* Dovecot as a delivery agent and reading (IMAP) server ;
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* Roundcube (or any Webmail) as a user-friendly Web client ;
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* Freeposte (Flask application) as an administration interface.
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Running a mail server
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=====================
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*Please note that this project is still in a very early stage. Do not use for
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production!*
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The mail server runs as a set of Docker containers. These containers are managed
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through a ``docker-compose.yml`` configuration file that requires Docker Compose
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to run.
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First, follow instructions at https://docs.docker.com to setup Docker and Docker
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Compose properly for your system. Then download the main configuration files:
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```
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wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaiyou/freeposte.io/master/docker-compose.yml
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wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaiyou/freeposte.io/master/freeposte.env
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```
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The ``docker-compose.yml`` file contains instructions about which containers to run and how they will
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interact. ``freeposte.env`` is the main configuration file. You must read it and provide proper configuration before running the server.
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You will also need to create a data directory. Freeposte will use ``/data``
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as a sane default:
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```
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mkdir -p /data
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```
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Otherwise, simply edit the ``docker-compose.yml`` to match your requirements. Finally, you can run your mail server:
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```
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docker-compose up -d
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```
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Upgrading the mail server
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=========================
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First check upstream for changes in the ``docker-compose.yml`` or in the
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``freeposte.env`` files. Update these files, then simply pull the latest
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images and recreate the containers :
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```
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docker-compose pull
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docker-compose up -d
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```
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Monitoring the mail server
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==========================
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Logs are managed by Docker directly. You can easily read your logs using :
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```
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docker-compose logs
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```
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Docker is able to forward logs to multiple log engines. Read the following documentation or details: https://docs.docker.com/engine/admin/logging/overview/.
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Building from source
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====================
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You can simply build all the containers from source using the ``docker-compose.yml``. First clone the Git repository:
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```
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git clone https://github.com/kaiyou/freeposte.io.git
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```
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Then build all the images :
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```
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docker-compose build
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```
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Development environment
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=======================
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The administration Web interface requires a proper dev environment that can easily be setup using ``virtualenv`` (make sure you are using Python 3) :
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```
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cd admin
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virtualenv .
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source bin/activate
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pip install -r requirements.txt
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```
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You can then export the path to the development database:
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```
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export SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI=sqlite:///path/to/dev.db
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```
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And finally run the server with debug enabled:
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```
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python run.py
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```
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