design: notifications on Account, Server > Settings and Server > Health
Accepted by the owner on 2026-10-12 from screenshots, after two changes of
his: DKIM for the server's own name as well as SPF ("we need the best
deliverability for these messages"), and the records themselves under
Settings with only their state on Health.
- account: a checkbox "Send me notifications" in the Profile box, under the
e-mail it writes to. No box of its own, no choice per event.
- settings: box 03 Notifications with the instance switch; box 04
Notification mail with the two DNS records of the server's own name, DKIM
and SPF, drawn with the record component of a domain's DNS page. Sending
rate limits move to the left column as box 02.
- health: card 06 Notification mail - the state of each record and a link to
Settings - beside Configuration, now 07, each half the width.
- help: a Notifications topic (what is sent, when, to whom, what makes it
arrive); Settings and Your account each gain a clause.
outlines.json rewritten with check.py --write: the structure of settings and
health changed. build.py: 35 pages; check.py: 32 screens, 52 sp- classes,
0 violations. The plan records both of his changes; step 1 of 10.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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<li><a href="#backup"><i class="ti ti-archive"></i>Backup and moving a domain</a></li>
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<li><a href="#users"><i class="ti ti-users"></i>Users and roles</a></li>
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<li><a href="#settings"><i class="ti ti-settings"></i>Settings</a></li>
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<li><a href="#notifications"><i class="ti ti-mail"></i>Notifications</a></li>
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<p class="menu-label">Account</p>
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<div class="sp-box-head"><span class="sp-no">04</span><h2>Server</h2></div>
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<div class="sp-help-topic" id="backup"><h3>Backup and moving a domain</h3><p>Full backup downloads one archive of the whole instance: <code>data/</code> (the database, DKIM keys and application credentials), <code>docker-compose.yml</code>, <code>.env</code> and <code>certs/</code>. The Postfix queue is not in it. The backup is taken while the server is running, and Postfix keeps moving messages through the queue, so a copy could hold a message twice or miss it; mail still waiting for delivery is therefore not carried over, and a restored server starts with an empty queue. To keep the queue, stop the container and archive the project directory instead. The private key in <code>certs/</code> has to be readable by the panel: give it to group 998 on the host (<code>chgrp 998</code>, <code>chmod 640</code>). Until then the panel refuses to make a backup and names the file, rather than hand over an archive without the key. It holds secrets, so leave Encrypt with a password ticked: the file is sealed as <code>.spbk</code>, the password is not stored, and without it nothing can be recovered. To restore, unpack it into an empty project directory (decrypt a <code>.spbk</code> first with <code>selfpost-backup -decrypt</code>) and start the same SelfPost version that made it; the panel refuses data from another version. The reverse-proxy configuration and <code>mail.log</code> are not included. One domain moves on its own: Export domain on its settings page writes a <code>.json</code> (or encrypted <code>.spde</code>) with its DKIM key and its applications' passwords, and Import a domain here reads it into another instance, so the published DNS needs no change.</p></div>
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<div class="sp-help-topic" id="users"><h3>Users and roles</h3><p>The two roles are a reach, not a rank: every user is an administrator and signs in with a username and password. Global reaches the whole server — Overview, Server, the queue and every domain — and is the only role that adds or deletes domains and users. Domain reaches only the domains assigned to it, outbound and inbound separately (the same name on both lists is two assignments); <em>All</em> includes domains added later, and a domain user needs at least one domain or <em>All</em> on either list. The only global user cannot be demoted or deleted, and you cannot delete the account you are signed in with. A new password set here signs that user out of their other sessions.</p></div>
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<div class="sp-help-topic" id="settings"><h3>Settings</h3><p>Settings holds what is true of the whole instance. Log retention is how many days the Outbound log keeps its rows, from 7 to 365 and 90 by default; a sweep every six hours deletes older ones, and it is the main driver of how fast <code>/data</code> grows. With the inbound relay on there is a second number, for the Inbound log, with the same range. It does not change the rotation of <code>mail.log</code>, which is daily with about two weeks kept. The sending rate limit shown under it is level 1, the per-client-IP ceiling set in <code>.env</code>: changing it needs a restart, and no level-2 limit can exceed it.</p></div>
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<div class="sp-help-topic" id="settings"><h3>Settings</h3><p>Settings holds what is true of the whole instance. Log retention is how many days the Outbound log keeps its rows, from 7 to 365 and 90 by default; a sweep every six hours deletes older ones, and it is the main driver of how fast <code>/data</code> grows. With the inbound relay on there is a second number, for the Inbound log, with the same range. It does not change the rotation of <code>mail.log</code>, which is daily with about two weeks kept. The sending rate limit shown under it is level 1, the per-client-IP ceiling set in <code>.env</code>: changing it needs a restart, and no level-2 limit can exceed it. Notifications are turned on or off here for everyone.</p></div>
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<div class="sp-help-topic" id="notifications"><h3>Notifications</h3><p>The panel writes to its users when something needs them, from <code>postmaster@</code> the server's hostname. Four things are reported. A sending domain's SPF, DKIM or DMARC record stops matching: sent once two hourly checks in a row have found it so, and once more when the record matches again. A level-2 rate limit refuses mail: sent at the first refusal, then at most once a day for the same limit. The TLS certificate is 14 days from expiry, and again at 3 days if it is still the same certificate. A message has waited in the queue for more than three days, with one more message when none is left. A global user is told all of it; a domain administrator is told about the DNS records and limits of their own domains.<br><br>Each user turns notifications on or off under Account and needs an e-mail there; Server › Settings turns them off for everyone. They are the panel's own mail: not rows of the Outbound log, and not counted against any limit.<br><br>For that mail to arrive, the server's own name needs two DNS records of its own, as each of your domains does: a DKIM key, which the panel generates and signs notifications with, and an SPF record, <code>v=spf1 a -all</code>. Server › Settings gives both with the values to publish, and Server › Health shows whether they are in place. Without them notifications are still sent, and a receiver may file them as spam. Mail of your domains does not depend on either.</p></div>
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<div class="sp-box-head"><span class="sp-no">05</span><h2>Account</h2></div>
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<div class="sp-help-topic" id="account"><h3>Your account</h3><p>Account is your own, whatever your role: your username and e-mail, and your password. Changing the password signs out every other session of this account and keeps the one you are using; applications have their own logins and are not affected.</p></div>
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<div class="sp-help-topic" id="account"><h3>Your account</h3><p>Account is your own, whatever your role: your username and e-mail, whether the panel sends you notifications, and your password. Changing the password signs out every other session of this account and keeps the one you are using; applications have their own logins and are not affected.</p></div>
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