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CHANGELOG ========= v0.08 (April 1, 2015) --------------------- Mail: * The Roundcube vacation_sieve plugin by @arodier is now installed to make it easier to set vacation auto-reply messages from within Roundcube. * Authentication-Results headers for DMARC, added in v0.07, were mistakenly added for outbound mail --- that's now removed. * The Trash folder is now created automatically for new mail accounts, addressing a Roundcube error. DNS: * Custom DNS TXT records were not always working and they can now override the default SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records. System: * ownCloud updated to version 8.0.2. * Brute-force SSH and IMAP login attempts are now prevented by properly configuring fail2ban. * Status checks are run each night and any changes from night to night are emailed to the box administrator (the first user account). Control panel: * The new check that system services are running mistakenly checked that the Dovecot Managesieve service is publicly accessible. Although the service binds to the public network interface we don't open the port in ufw. On some machines it seems that ufw blocks the connection from the status checks (which seems correct) and on some machines (mine) it doesn't, which is why I didn't notice the problem. * The current backup chain will now try to predict how many days until it is deleted (always at least 3 days after the next full backup). * The list of aliases that forward to a user are removed from the Mail Users page because when there are many alises it is slow and times-out. * Some status check errors are turned into warnings, especially those that might not apply if External DNS is used. |
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Mail-in-a-Box
By @JoshData and contributors.
Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.
Please see https://mailinabox.email for the project's website and setup guide!
I am trying to:
- Make deploying a good mail server easy.
- Promote decentralization, innovation, and privacy on the web.
- Have automated, auditable, and idempotent configuration.
- Not be a mail server that the NSA cannot hack.
- Not be customizable by power users.
The long-term goal is to have this be a one-click email appliance with no user-configurable setup options.
For more background, see The Rationale.
This setup is what has been powering my own personal email since September 2013.
The Box
Mail-in-a-Box turns a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit machine into a working mail server, including SMTP (postfix), IMAP (dovecot), Exchange ActiveSync (z-push), webmail (Roundcube), spam filtering (spamassassin), greylisting (postgrey), CardDAV/CalDAV (ownCloud), DNS, SPF, DKIM (OpenDKIM), DMARC, DNSSEC, DANE TLSA, SSHFP, and basic system services like a firewall, intrusion protection, and setting the system clock.
The Acknowledgements
This project was inspired in part by the "NSA-proof your email in 2 hours" blog post by Drew Crawford, Sovereign by Alex Payne, and conversations with @shevski, @konklone, and @GregElin.
Mail-in-a-Box is similar to iRedMail and Modoboa.
The History
- In 2007 I wrote a relatively popular Mozilla Thunderbird extension that added client-side SPF and DKIM checks to mail to warn users about possible phishing: add-on page, source.
- Mail-in-a-Box was a semifinalist in the 2014 Knight News Challenge, but it was not selected as a winner.
- Mail-in-a-Box hit the front page of Hacker News in April and September 2014.