diff --git a/deploy/webmail.sh b/deploy/webmail.sh
index 93cc01b..3d8ce6a 100755
--- a/deploy/webmail.sh
+++ b/deploy/webmail.sh
@@ -33,8 +33,33 @@ grn()  { printf '\033[32m%s\033[0m\n' "$*"; }
 ylw()  { printf '\033[33m%s\033[0m\n' "$*"; }
 die()  { red "error: $*" >&2; exit 1; }
 
+# Which compose is on this box. Synology DSM and QNAP QTS ship the standalone
+# `docker-compose` binary and have no `docker compose` subcommand, so detect
+# rather than assume. COMPOSE_WAIT is empty on v1, which has no `--wait`; the
+# script's own health_gate covers that case.
+COMPOSE_BIN=()
+COMPOSE_WAIT=""
+detect_compose() {
+    [ "${#COMPOSE_BIN[@]}" -gt 0 ] && return 0
+    if docker compose version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        COMPOSE_BIN=(docker compose)
+    elif command -v docker-compose >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        COMPOSE_BIN=(docker-compose)
+    else
+        die "no compose found: neither 'docker compose' nor 'docker-compose' is available"
+    fi
+    local ver
+    ver="$("${COMPOSE_BIN[@]}" version 2>/dev/null | head -1)"
+    case "$ver" in
+        *v2.*|*" 2."*) COMPOSE_WAIT="--wait" ;;
+        *) COMPOSE_WAIT=""
+           ylw "compose v1 detected (${ver:-unknown}) — using the script's own health checks" ;;
+    esac
+}
+
 compose() {
-    docker compose --env-file "$ENV_FILE" -f "$COMPOSE_FILE" "$@"
+    detect_compose
+    "${COMPOSE_BIN[@]}" --env-file "$ENV_FILE" -f "$COMPOSE_FILE" "$@"
 }
 
 # Read KEY=VALUE pairs the way compose's .env parser does, WITHOUT sourcing.
@@ -301,7 +326,10 @@ cmd_up() {
     # the `init` service fixes ownership. This line must not be fatal, because
     # DATA_ROOT is typically root-owned while you may be running as yourself.
     mkdir -p "${DATA_ROOT}"/{postgres,blobs,redis,backups,meili,state} 2>/dev/null || true
-    compose "${profile[@]}" up -d "${build[@]}" --wait
+    detect_compose
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+    compose "${profile[@]}" up -d "${build[@]}" $COMPOSE_WAIT
+    health_gate || die "services did not come up healthy — check: ./deploy/webmail.sh logs"
     record_version "${IMAGE_TAG:-local}"
     grn "up. open http://<this-host>:${WEB_PORT:-8088}/"
 }
@@ -395,7 +423,8 @@ cmd_update() {
         grn "updated to ${target}"
     else
         red "health gate failed — rolling back to ${previous}"
-        IMAGE_TAG="$previous" compose up -d --wait || true
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+        IMAGE_TAG="$previous" compose up -d $COMPOSE_WAIT || true
         die "update to ${target} failed; production is back on ${previous}"
     fi
 }
@@ -405,7 +434,8 @@ cmd_rollback() {
     local target="${1:-$(cat "$(state_dir)/previous" 2>/dev/null || echo "")}"
     [ -n "$target" ] || die "no previous version recorded; pass a tag: ./deploy/webmail.sh rollback v1.0.0"
     ylw "rolling back to ${target}"
-    IMAGE_TAG="$target" compose up -d --wait
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+    IMAGE_TAG="$target" compose up -d $COMPOSE_WAIT
     if health_gate; then
         record_version "$target"
         set_env_value IMAGE_TAG "$target"
@@ -459,7 +489,9 @@ cmd_restore() {
         || die "restore failed; the database was left as it was"
 
     echo "starting application containers"
-    compose up -d --wait
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+    compose up -d $COMPOSE_WAIT
+    health_gate || ylw "services are still starting; check: ./deploy/webmail.sh status"
     grn "restored. If the blob store was lost too, mail bodies will refill on next sync."
 }
 
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index a1d9d43..e65d2f9 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@
 #   Start:  ./deploy/webmail.sh up
 #   Manual: docker compose up -d          (reads .env from this directory)
 #
+#   Likewise, no `cpus:` limits: that maps to NanoCPUs, which DSM's Docker
+#   daemon rejects ("NanoCPUs can not be set"). mem_limit uses the much older
+#   Memory field and works fine, so memory caps are the throttle here.
+#
 #   Interpolation here must stay on the oldest, dumbest forms: ${VAR} and
 #   ${VAR:-default}. DSM's bundled Compose rejects `${VAR:?message}` with
 #   "invalid interpolation format", and rejects `include:` outright. Required
@@ -224,7 +228,6 @@ services:
       migrate: { condition: service_completed_successfully }
     restart: unless-stopped
     mem_limit: ${API_MEM_LIMIT:-512m}
-    cpus: ${API_CPUS:-1.0}
     logging: *logging
 
   worker-sync:
@@ -243,7 +246,6 @@ services:
       migrate: { condition: service_completed_successfully }
     restart: unless-stopped
     mem_limit: ${WORKER_SYNC_MEM_LIMIT:-512m}
-    cpus: ${WORKER_CPUS:-1.5}
     # Leases are released on SIGTERM (workers/run.py targets <10 s); give it room.
     stop_grace_period: 30s
     logging: *logging
@@ -262,7 +264,6 @@ services:
       migrate: { condition: service_completed_successfully }
     restart: unless-stopped
     mem_limit: ${WORKER_JOBS_MEM_LIMIT:-640m}
-    cpus: ${WORKER_CPUS:-1.5}
     stop_grace_period: 30s
     logging: *logging
 
diff --git a/docker/.env.prod.example b/docker/.env.prod.example
index 8c6ee0d..4d14b83 100644
--- a/docker/.env.prod.example
+++ b/docker/.env.prod.example
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ STREAM_PARSE_MB=8
 PER_HOST_CONN_CAP=10
 HOT_BUDGET_PER_WORKER=50
 
+# Container caps. Memory only: CPU limits (`cpus:`) are deliberately absent
+# because Synology's Docker daemon rejects them (NanoCPUs).
 # Container caps. Total without Meilisearch: ~2.2 GB of *limits*; real steady
 # usage for one or two mail accounts is around 700 MB-1 GB.
 PG_MEM_LIMIT=768m
@@ -102,10 +104,8 @@ PG_EFFECTIVE_CACHE_SIZE=768MB
 REDIS_MEM_LIMIT=160m
 REDIS_MAXMEMORY=96mb
 API_MEM_LIMIT=512m
-API_CPUS=1.0
 WORKER_SYNC_MEM_LIMIT=512m
 WORKER_JOBS_MEM_LIMIT=640m
-WORKER_CPUS=1.5
 WEB_MEM_LIMIT=96m
 BACKUP_MEM_LIMIT=256m
 MEILI_MEM_LIMIT=1g