Three things stood between v1.1.0 and a working anti-spam engine on an existing
install, each silent:
`update` rolled only worker-sync, worker-jobs, api and web. A release that adds
a service — this one adds two — would report success while never creating it.
It now converges the rest with `up -d --no-recreate`, which creates what is
absent and leaves the rolled services alone.
.env.prod.example pinned ENABLED_PLUGINS to the four plugins that existed when it
was written. The entrypoint's default includes antispam, but an explicit value in
.env wins, so migrate would skip the plugin's tables and every antispam request
would fail at runtime rather than at install. The template is fixed for new
installs; `doctor` now warns existing ones, comparing .env against the
entrypoint's default so there is still one list, not two.
And the runbook now documents what the engine costs (~150-300 MB), that nothing
depends on it by design, that `init` must be re-run for the controller password,
and that its Bayes database is derived data like the search index.
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`up` only builds images that are missing locally, and `update` refuses to
run without an existing database to back up — so a fresh install that is
meant to fetch prebuilt images had no command that did it. `pull` fills the
gap and fails loudly if REGISTRY_PREFIX is still the local default.
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Three strands that only make sense together, so they land together.
Registration gate (migration 0016). POST /auth/register was open to anyone
who could reach the port. Now the first account on an empty instance is
always allowed, becomes the administrator, and closes registration behind
itself; after that it takes an admin reopening it. The decision is made
under a row lock on app_settings so two simultaneous first signups cannot
both see an empty table and both claim administrator. Existing installs
keep their oldest account as admin and start closed.
Instance default quota (migration 0017). users.quota_bytes is snapshotted
at creation from app_settings.default_quota_bytes, so changing the default
affects later accounts only and never resizes a mailbox that exists.
The panel is a separate app, not a page in the mail client. admin.html is
its own Vite entry (5.8 KB next to the client's 1.7 MB; they share only the
vendor chunk), with its own administrator sign-in. One nginx now serves two
listeners: :80 is the mail client and 404s both /admin.html and
/api/admin/*, :81 is the panel. docker-compose publishes them as WEB_PORT
and ADMIN_PORT. The boundary is nginx refusing paths on one listener, not
process isolation — CurrentAdmin still guards every admin route — so
ADMIN_PORT must be restricted to the LAN, which the runbook now covers for
both DSM and QNAP.
Also QNAP: deploy/webmail.sh finds Container Station's docker under
/share/*/.qpkg/container-station/bin, which is off an SSH session's PATH,
before anything shells out to it. docs/nas-install.md gains a QuTS hero
runbook (§2.6), splits the DSM firewall section into container-to-container
(§8.1) and the egress case that makes account-add time out while
autodiscovery appears to work (§8.2), and scopes both to Synology.
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Confirmed on the operator's NAS. The earlier advice (insert an ACCEPT rule
ahead of DSM's chain) does not hold: DSM reloads its firewall periodically,
flushing and rebuilding the chains. You can watch FORWARD_FIREWALL's DROP
counter reset to zero and the inserted rule vanish with it, having matched no
packets. That is also why the symptom looked intermittent — 60/40 success on
repeated connections, with RELATED,ESTABLISHED keeping existing flows alive.
The fix is one level down: net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables=0 takes
same-bridge traffic out of iptables entirely, so DSM's reloading cannot affect
it. Persisted with a Boot-up Triggered Task.
Section 8 now also answers "is that safe", accurately: the flag affects only
packets bridged within one network. Traffic between different Docker networks
is routed, so DOCKER-ISOLATION still applies; inbound traffic to published
ports is still routed and still firewalled; INPUT, which protects the NAS
itself, is untouched. The one real caveat is that it is host-wide, so VMs
sharing a bridge lose same-bridge filtering too.
The migrate failure message points at the sysctl now.
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Diagnosed on a real Synology: with the DSM firewall enabled, iptables reads
-A FORWARD -j FORWARD_FIREWALL <- DSM, first, default deny
-A FORWARD -j DEFAULT_FORWARD <- Docker's ACCEPT rules, never reached
and bridge-nf-call-iptables=1 sends container-to-container packets through
FORWARD. A new connection to postgres:5432 matches no DSM allow rule and is
dropped before Docker's own "-i docker-xxx -o docker-xxx -j ACCEPT" is
consulted. RELATED,ESTABLISHED is accepted, which is why the port could test
open from a throwaway container while every new connection timed out — the
symptom looked intermittent and pointed nowhere near the firewall.
- docs §8: the diagnosis, the one-line fix
(iptables -I FORWARD 1 -i docker+ -o docker+ -j ACCEPT), a boot-up Triggered
Task so it survives reboots and firewall reloads, and a verification command.
- The migrate failure message now names this cause and the fix, since that is
the error an operator actually sees.
Nothing in the stack is at fault here; this is host firewall configuration.
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DSM reported "invalid interpolation format for x-backend-env.MASTER_KEY" and
"required variable MASTER_KEY is missing a value". Both were mine.
1. DSM's bundled Compose cannot parse `${VAR:?message}`. Those guards are gone;
interpolation now sticks to `${VAR}` and `${VAR:-default}`, the forms every
Compose understands. Bind mounts keep a `${DATA_ROOT:-/DATA_ROOT-is-unset}`
sentinel so a missing config still cannot scatter directories across the
root of the NAS filesystem, and the header says to keep it this way.
2. Config was at docker/.env.prod with a `.env` symlink beside it. Container
Manager did not pick that up. The real file is now `.env` in the project
folder — what every compose front end reads without being told — and
docker/.env.prod becomes a symlink to it. `init` and `require_env` migrate
an existing install in place, keeping its MASTER_KEY.
Also, while testing the migration: `init` only generated secrets when creating
a file from scratch, so a migrated or hand-written .env with an empty
POSTGRES_PASSWORD started Postgres in trust-auth mode. It now tops up empty
secrets — and never touches a MASTER_KEY that already has a value, since
replacing it would make every stored credential undecryptable. doctor flags an
empty password too.
Verified: parses cleanly with no .env at all (the failure DSM hit), migration
preserves an existing key, and `docker compose up -d --wait` from the project
folder brings the stack up healthy and serving.
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init runs as root on a NAS, so docker/.env.prod is mode 600 owned by root and
the data directories are root-owned. Running any subcommand as a normal user
produced a bare redirect error naming an internal line number, with no hint
about the cause.
require_env now checks readability first and says who you are running as, the
exact sudo command to repeat, and that `sudo -i` avoids it for the session.
Docs note it beside the show-key step and above the command reference.
Reproduced with a root-owned 600 env file read as a normal user; the message
is what that case now prints.
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The install guide was SSH-first and left the GUI as a footnote, but the two
things it could not do were both fixable rather than inherent.
- `init` takes --data-root / --domain / --tz / --port / --bind, so configuring
is one command instead of hand-editing a dotfile that File Station hides by
default. Re-running with flags updates an existing .env.prod.
- `show-key` prints MASTER_KEY, so it can be backed up without opening that
hidden file — intended to be redirected to a file, copied into a password
manager, and deleted.
- usage() printed a hardcoded line range that spilled into the code once the
header grew; it now prints the leading comment block however long it gets.
- docs §2.5 is a complete GUI walkthrough: Gitea "Download ZIP" + File Station
(with the chmod a zip download needs), two one-off Task Scheduler jobs for
config and key backup, then the Container Manager project on the repo root
named webmail-prod. Plus a table for running update/rollback/backup/restore
/doctor/reindex as Task Scheduler jobs, and why the UI's own Build action is
not a substitute for `update` (no pre-backup, no health gate, no rollback).
Verified by running the documented sequence verbatim: flag-driven init,
show-key, then `docker compose up -d --wait` from the project folder as the
GUI does — all services healthy, account created, backup and doctor tasks
working against the result.
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Synology Container Manager and QNAP Container Station build a project from a
folder and look for `docker-compose.yml` in it. Pointing either at `docker/`
finds the DEV service stack and starts the wrong thing, so production now has
a root-level entry point.
- docker-compose.yml at the repo root: `include`s the prod stack (relative
paths resolve against the included file's directory, so the build context
and backup.sh still resolve) and pins `name: webmail-prod`. A project name
typed into the GUI overrides the file's, so the docs say to type the same
one.
- webmail.sh init now drops a `.env` symlink to docker/.env.prod in the repo
root: the GUI reads `.env` from the project folder, and a symlink keeps one
file to edit instead of two copies that drift.
- Required-variable guards on DATA_ROOT / MASTER_KEY / POSTGRES_PASSWORD /
APP_DOMAIN. A bare `docker compose up` with no env file used to interpolate
DATA_ROOT to "" and bind-mount /postgres at the root of the filesystem; it
now aborts with a message naming the variable.
- require_env no longer sources the env file. Sourcing executed it as shell:
ENABLED_PLUGINS=calendar contacts labels filters ran `contacts` as a command
and broke every subcommand, and anything else in the file that holds the
master key would have been executed too. Replaced with a compose-compatible
KEY=VALUE parser; the template quotes the value as well.
- doctor: no longer aborts on a not-yet-created DATA_ROOT (set -e + pipefail
killed it inside a `df` assignment — on exactly the pre-install run where
its NFS/SMB check is the one that matters), and probes the nearest existing
ancestor so that check works before the directory exists.
- docs §2.5 rewritten with what the GUI can and cannot do: no compose
profiles (so no Meilisearch), no health-gated update, no restore; plus the
Task Scheduler route for generating MASTER_KEY without enabling SSH, and
why init/migrate showing "Exited (0)" is correct.
Verified by running `docker compose up -d --wait` from the repo root with no
-f and no --env-file (what the GUI does): all services healthy, migrations
applied, app served, and deploy/webmail.sh manages the same project.
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Everything needed to run the app on an Intel NAS that is also doing other
jobs: one published port, no host networking, memory/CPU caps and log
rotation on every container, and all state in bind mounts under DATA_ROOT
so mail survives image updates, project deletion in the NAS UI, and full
reinstalls — and so Hyper Backup/HBS3 can actually see it.
- docker/Dockerfile.backend: multi-stage, non-root (uid 10001), tini for
the <10s graceful lease release. Installs the four plugins as entry-point
distributions. One image, several roles via docker/entrypoint.sh
(api | worker-sync | worker-jobs | migrate | reindex | plugins).
- docker/Dockerfile.frontend + nginx.conf: SPA + /api reverse proxy with
the WebSocket upgrade for /api/ws, and X-Forwarded-Proto preserved so
the API still emits __Host-/Secure cookies when TLS is terminated by
the NAS reverse proxy (identity/cookies.py keys off request scheme).
- docker/docker-compose.prod.yml: project name webmail-prod, NOT webmail —
docker-compose.yml (dev services) owns that name, and two compose files
sharing one project name fight over each other's containers.
Meilisearch is an opt-in profile; SEARCH_BACKEND=pg is the default so a
small NAS pays nothing for search.
- migrate runs as a one-shot (core Alembic head + every plugin branch)
that everything else waits on, so a bad migration can never leave new
code running against an old schema.
- docker/backup.sh: nightly pg_dump verified with `pg_restore --list`
before it counts as a backup, with retention and a baseline on first
start.
- deploy/webmail.sh: init/doctor/up/down/status/logs/update/rollback/
backup/restore/reindex/psql/shell. `update` is backup -> images ->
migrate -> roll workers, api, web -> health-gate, with automatic
rollback to the previous version if the gate fails. `doctor` refuses to
be quiet when DATA_ROOT is on NFS/SMB (silent Postgres corruption).
- deploy/build-push.sh: build images off-NAS (the frontend build wants
~2GB RAM) and push to Gitea, or --save a tar to carry over.
- scripts/reindex_search.py: rebuild the search index from Postgres alone.
Every SearchDoc field is already stored, so the index is derived data
that never needs backing up — this closes the only real objection to
running Meilisearch on a box whose volumes may be wiped.
- pyproject: package-data for accounts/presets.yaml and the shared plugin
Alembic env. Without it a non-editable install (i.e. any image) silently
ships a package that fails at runtime.
- GET /api/version, used by the deploy health gate.
Verified end to end on a real stack: fresh install, all services healthy,
core + 4 plugin migration branches applied, login/SPA/plugin bundles
through nginx, WS upgrade returning 101, __Host- cookies under a
simulated TLS proxy, backup -> restore round-trip preserving user and
plugin schema, failed-update auto-rollback (both a bad migration and a
boot-crashing API), and Meilisearch profile serving a live query.
ruff + mypy --strict clean, 363/363 backend tests pass.
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