{"config":{"indexing":"full","lang":["en"],"min_search_length":3,"prebuild_index":false,"separator":"[\\s\\-]+"},"docs":[{"location":"","text":"Welcome to the Extended Documentation for docker-mailserver ! Please first have a look at the README.md to setup and configure this server. This documentation provides you with advanced configuration, detailed examples, and hints. Getting Started The script setup.sh is supplied with this project. It supports you in configuring and administrating your server. Information on how to get it and how to use it is available on a dedicated page . Be aware that advanced tasks may still require tweaking environment variables, reading through documentation and sometimes inspecting your running container for debugging purposes. After all, a mail-server is a complex arrangement of various programs. A list of all configuration options is documented on the ENV page . The README.md is a good starting point to understand what this image is capable of. A list of all optional and automatically created configuration files and directories is available on the dedicated page . If you want to know more about our test suite, view our testing docs . Tip See the FAQ for some more tips! Important If you'd like to change, patch or alter files or behavior of docker-mailserver , you can use a script. Just place a script called user-patches.sh in your ./docker-data/dms/config/ folder volume and it will be run on container startup. See the 'Modifications via Script' page for additional documentation and an example. Contributing We are always happy to welcome new contributors. For guidelines and entrypoints please have a look at the Contributing section .","title":"Home"},{"location":"#welcome-to-the-extended-documentation-for-docker-mailserver","text":"Please first have a look at the README.md to setup and configure this server. This documentation provides you with advanced configuration, detailed examples, and hints.","title":"Welcome to the Extended Documentation for docker-mailserver!"},{"location":"#getting-started","text":"The script setup.sh is supplied with this project. It supports you in configuring and administrating your server. Information on how to get it and how to use it is available on a dedicated page . Be aware that advanced tasks may still require tweaking environment variables, reading through documentation and sometimes inspecting your running container for debugging purposes. After all, a mail-server is a complex arrangement of various programs. A list of all configuration options is documented on the ENV page . The README.md is a good starting point to understand what this image is capable of. A list of all optional and automatically created configuration files and directories is available on the dedicated page . If you want to know more about our test suite, view our testing docs . Tip See the FAQ for some more tips! Important If you'd like to change, patch or alter files or behavior of docker-mailserver , you can use a script. Just place a script called user-patches.sh in your ./docker-data/dms/config/ folder volume and it will be run on container startup. See the 'Modifications via Script' page for additional documentation and an example.","title":"Getting Started"},{"location":"#contributing","text":"We are always happy to welcome new contributors. For guidelines and entrypoints please have a look at the Contributing section .","title":"Contributing"},{"location":"faq/","text":"What kind of database are you using? None! No database is required. Filesystem is the database. This image is based on config files that can be persisted using bind mounts (default) or Docker volumes, and as such versioned, backed up and so forth. Where are emails stored? Mails are stored in /var/mail/${domain}/${username} . Since v9.0.0 it is possible to add custom user_attributes for each accounts to have a different mailbox configuration (See #1792 ). How to alter the running docker-mailserver instance without relaunching the container? docker-mailserver aggregates multiple \"sub-services\",suchasPostfix,
