docker-mailserver

A fullstack but simple mail server (smtp, imap, antispam, antivirus...). Only configuration files, no SQL database. Keep it simple and versioned. Easy to deploy and upgrade.

Includes:

• postfix with smtp or ldap auth
• dovecot for sasl, imap (and optional pop3) with ssl support, with ldap auth
• saslauthd with ldap auth
• amavis
• spamassasin supporting custom rules
• clamav with automatic updates
• opendkim
• opendmarc
• fail2ban
• fetchmail
• postgrey
• basic sieve support using dovecot
• LetsEncrypt and self-signed certificates
• persistent data and state (but think about backups!)
• integration tests
• automated builds on docker hub

Why I created this image: Simple mail server with Docker

Before you open an issue, please have a look this README, the Wiki and Postfix/Dovecot documentation.

Usage

Get latest image

docker pull tvial/docker-mailserver:latest

Create a docker-compose.yml

Adapt this file with your FQDN. Install docker-compose in the version 1.6 or higher.

Your configs must be mounted in /tmp/docker-mailserver/. To understand how things work on boot, please have a look to start-mailserver.sh

restart: always ensures that the mail server container (and ELK container when using the mail server together with ELK stack) is automatically restarted by Docker in cases like a Docker service or host restart or container exit.

version: '2'

services:
  mail:
    image: tvial/docker-mailserver:2.1
    hostname: mail
    domainname: domain.com
    container_name: mail
    ports:
    - "25:25"
    - "143:143"
    - "587:587"
    - "993:993"
    volumes:
    - maildata:/var/mail
    - mailstate:/var/mail-state
    - ./config/:/tmp/docker-mailserver/
    environment:
    - ENABLE_SPAMASSASSIN=1
    - ENABLE_CLAMAV=1
    - ENABLE_FAIL2BAN=1
    - ENABLE_POSTGREY=1
    - ONE_DIR=1
    - DMS_DEBUG=0
    cap_add:
    - NET_ADMIN

volumes:
  maildata:
    driver: local
  mailstate:
    driver: local

Create your mail accounts

Don't forget to adapt MAIL_USER and MAIL_PASS to your needs

mkdir -p config
touch config/postfix-accounts.cf
docker run --rm \
  -e MAIL_USER=user1@domain.tld \
  -e MAIL_PASS=mypassword \
  -ti tvial/docker-mailserver:latest \
  /bin/sh -c 'echo "$MAIL_USER|$(doveadm pw -s SHA512-CRYPT -u $MAIL_USER -p $MAIL_PASS)"' >> config/postfix-accounts.cf

Generate DKIM keys

docker run --rm \
  -v "$(pwd)/config":/tmp/docker-mailserver \
  -ti tvial/docker-mailserver:latest generate-dkim-config

Now the keys are generated, you can configure your DNS server by just pasting the content of config/opendkim/keys/domain.tld/mail.txt in your domain.tld.hosts zone.

Note: you can also manage email accounts, DKIM keys and more with the setup.sh convenience script.

Start the container

docker-compose up -d mail

You're done!

Environment variables

Please check how the container starts to understand what's expected.

Value in bold is the default value.

DMS_DEBUG

• 0 => Debug disabled
• 1 => Enables debug on startup

ENABLE_CLAMAV

• 0 => Clamav is disabled
• 1 => Clamav is enabled

ENABLE_SPAMASSASSIN

• 0 => Spamassassin is disabled
• 1 => Spamassassin is enabled

SA_TAG

• 2.0 => add spam info headers if at, or above that level

Note: this spamassassin setting needs ENABLE_SPAMASSASSIN=1

SA_TAG2

• 6.31 => add 'spam detected' headers at that level

Note: this spamassassin setting needs ENABLE_SPAMASSASSIN=1

SA_KILL

• 6.31 => triggers spam evasive actions

Note: this spamassassin setting needs ENABLE_SPAMASSASSIN=1

ONE_DIR

• 0 => state in default directories
• 1 => consolidate all states into a single directory (/var/mail-state) to allow persistence using docker volumes

ENABLE_POP3

• empty => POP3 service disabled
• 1 => Enables POP3 service

ENABLE_FAIL2BAN

• 0 => fail2ban service disabled
• 1 => Enables fail2ban service

If you enable Fail2Ban, don't forget to add the following lines to your docker-compose.yml:

cap_add:
  - NET_ADMIN

Otherwise, iptables won't be able to ban IPs.

ENABLE_MANAGESIEVE

• empty => Managesieve service disabled
• 1 => Enables Managesieve on port 4190

ENABLE_FETCHMAIL

• 0 => fetchmail disabled
• 1 => fetchmail enabled

ENABLE_LDAP

• empty => LDAP authentification is disabled
• 1 => LDAP authentification is enabled
• NOTE:
  • A second container for the ldap service is necessary (e.g. docker-openldap)
  • For preparing the ldap server to use in combination with this continer this article may be helpful

LDAP_SERVER_HOST

• empty => mail.domain.com
• => Specify the dns-name/ip-address where the ldap-server
• NOTE: If you going to use the mailserver in combination with docker-compose you can set the service name here

LDAP_SEARCH_BASE

• empty => ou=people,dc=domain,dc=com
• => e.g. LDAP_SEARCH_BASE=dc=mydomain,dc=local

LDAP_BIND_DN

• empty => cn=admin,dc=domain,dc=com
• => take a look at examples of SASL_LDAP_BIND_DN

LDAP_BIND_PW

• empty => admin
• => Specify the password to bind against ldap

OVERRIDE_HOSTNAME

• empty => uses the hostname command to get the mail server's canonical hostname
• => Specify a fully-qualified domainname to serve mail for. This is used for many of the config features so if you can't set your hostname (e.g. you're in a container platform that doesn't let you) specify it in this environment variable.

POSTMASTER_ADDRESS

• empty => postmaster@domain.com
• => Specify the postmaster address

ENABLE_POSTGREY

• 0 => postgrey is disabled
• 1 => postgrey is enabled

POSTGREY_DELAY

• 300 => greylist for N seconds

Note: This postgrey setting needs ENABLE_POSTGREY=1

POSTGREY_MAX_AGE

• 35 => delete entries older than N days since the last time that they have been seen

Note: This postgrey setting needs ENABLE_POSTGREY=1

POSTGREY_TEXT

• Delayed by postgrey => response when a mail is greylisted

Note: This postgrey setting needs ENABLE_POSTGREY=1

ENABLE_SASLAUTHD

• 0 => saslauthd is disabled
• 1 => saslauthd is enabled

SASLAUTHD_MECHANISMS

• empty => pam
• ldap => authenticate against ldap server
• shadow => authenticate against local user db
• mysql => authenticate against mysql db
• rimap => authenticate against imap server
• NOTE: can be a list of mechanisms like pam ldap shadow

SASLAUTHD_MECH_OPTIONS

• empty => None
• e.g. with SASLAUTHD_MECHANISMS rimap you need to specify the ip-address/servername of the imap server ==> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

SASLAUTHD_LDAP_SERVER

• empty => localhost

SASLAUTHD_LDAP_SSL

• empty or 0 => ldap:// will be used
• 1 => ldaps:// will be used

SASLAUTHD_LDAP_BIND_DN

• empty => anonymous bind
• specify an object with priviliges to search the directory tree
• e.g. active directory: SASLAUTHD_LDAP_BIND_DN=cn=Administrator,cn=Users,dc=mydomain,dc=net
• e.g. openldap: SASLAUTHD_LDAP_BIND_DN=cn=admin,dc=mydomain,dc=net

SASLAUTHD_LDAP_PASSWORD

• empty => anonymous bind

SASLAUTHD_LDAP_SEARCH_BASE

• empty => Reverting to SASLAUTHD_MECHANISMS pam
• specify the search base

SASLAUTHD_LDAP_FILTER

• empty => default filter (&(uniqueIdentifier=%u)(mailEnabled=TRUE))
• e.g. for active directory: (&(sAMAccountName=%U)(objectClass=person))
• e.g. for openldap: (&(uid=%U)(objectClass=person))

SASL_PASSWD

• empty => No sasl_passwd will be created
• string => /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd will be created with the string as password

SMTP_ONLY

• empty => all daemons start
• 1 => only launch postfix smtp

SSL_TYPE

• empty => SSL disabled
• letsencrypt => Enables Let's Encrypt certificates
• custom => Enables custom certificates
• manual => Let's you manually specify locations of your SSL certificates for non-standard cases
• self-signed => Enables self-signed certificates

Please read the SSL page in the wiki for more information.

PERMIT_DOCKER

Set different options for mynetworks option (can be overwrite in postfix-main.cf)

• empty => localhost only
• host => Add docker host (ipv4 only)
• network => Add all docker containers (ipv4 only)

VIRUSMAILS_DELETE_DELAY

Set how many days a virusmail will stay on the server before being deleted

• empty => 7 days

ENABLE_POSTFIX_VIRTUAL_TRANSPORT

This Option is activating the Usage of POSTFIX_DAGENT to specify a ltmp client different from default dovecot socket. - empty => disabled - 1 => enabled

POSTFIX_DAGENT

Enabled by ENABLE_POSTFIX_VIRTUAL_TRANSPORT. Specify the final delivery of postfix - empty: fail - lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp (use socket) - lmtps:inet:: (secure lmtp with starttls, take a look at https://sys4.de/en/blog/2014/11/17/sicheres-lmtp-mit-starttls-in-dovecot/) - lmtp::2003 (use kopano as mailstore) - etc.