selfpost/deploy/docker-compose.yml

# SelfPost — default deployment, reverse-proxy = Apache (spec 10, 10.5).
#
# This file only runs SelfPost itself. Apache is assumed to already be
# installed on the HOST (the target audience for this project typically runs
# Apache there already — spec 10.5) and reverse-proxies HTTPS for the panel;
# it is not containerised here. See ../apache/selfpost-vhost.conf for a ready
# vhost fragment, and docs/guide.md "Reverse proxy" for the
# certbot steps that produce the PEM files this compose file mounts.
#
# Usage:
#   1. Copy this file (and .env.example as .env) next to your own ./data and
#      ./certs directories, or adjust the paths below.
#   2. Fill in .env (at minimum SELFPOST_HOSTNAME). Put PEM files in ./certs —
#      TLS paths are fixed in this file to match that bind mount, not .env.
#   3. docker compose up -d
#
# The image tag below is FIXED on purpose (spec 10 p.10, 7.5.A): backup
# restore compares the manifest version against the running binary's version,
# so ":latest" would make that check meaningless. Bump the tag deliberately
# when you want to upgrade.

services:
  selfpost:
    image: ghcr.io/mixeme/selfpost:1.2.5
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      SELFPOST_HOSTNAME: "${SELFPOST_HOSTNAME:?set the mail/panel hostname, e.g. mail.example.com}"
      # Path Postfix reads inside the container — matches the certs bind mount
      # below. Point these at your reverse-proxy's PEM output (spec 10 p.2).
      TLS_CERT_FILE: /etc/postfix/tls/fullchain.pem
      TLS_KEY_FILE: /etc/postfix/tls/privkey.pem
      # Set to true to also publish RFC 6409 submission (587/STARTTLS)
      # alongside the primary 465/smtps listener (spec 5).
      SUBMISSION_ENABLE: "${SUBMISSION_ENABLE:-false}"
      # Level-1 backstop rate limit (anvil, spec 5.5, 7.4); per-domain/app
      # limits (level 2) are configured later from the panel itself.
      RATE_LIMIT_MESSAGES_PER_IP: "${RATE_LIMIT_MESSAGES_PER_IP:-100}"
      RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_SECONDS: "${RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_SECONDS:-3600}"
      # How long the send log keeps rows before the background sweep deletes
      # them (spec 7.3, 9) — the main driver of /data growth over time.
      SEND_LOG_RETENTION_DAYS: "${SEND_LOG_RETENTION_DAYS:-90}"
      # Sliding idle timeout for the panel login session, in days (spec 7.6.6).
      PANEL_SESSION_IDLE_DAYS: "${PANEL_SESSION_IDLE_DAYS:-7}"
      # Resolvers the panel's PTR/SPF/DKIM/DMARC checks query directly, so they
      # report what the internet sees rather than what this host's own stub
      # resolver synthesises. Empty uses public defaults.
      SELFPOST_DNS_RESOLVERS: "${SELFPOST_DNS_RESOLVERS:-}"
      # Reverse-proxy CIDRs allowed to supply X-Forwarded-For for login/setup
      # rate-limiting. See docs/guide.md "Environment variables" — wrong value lets a
      # client spoof its rate-limit key.
      TRUSTED_PROXY_CIDR: "${TRUSTED_PROXY_CIDR:-}"
    volumes:
      # All persistent state lives under /data (spec 9): SQLite DB, DKIM keys,
      # sasldb2, sender map, setup token. Back this up (panel button or the
      # selfpost-backup CLI) before you touch it directly.
      # Postfix's mail.log is here too (./data/log, rotated daily, 14 files
      # kept) so the delivery lines that resolve a queued send-log row survive
      # a container recreate; it is diagnostics and is left out of backups.
      - ./data:/data
      # Read-only: SelfPost only ever reads certificates, never manages them
      # (spec 10 p.2). Point this at wherever your reverse-proxy/certbot
      # writes PEM files, e.g. /etc/letsencrypt on the host.
      - ./certs:/etc/postfix/tls:ro
    ports:
      # 465 (smtps, primary) and optionally 587 (submission/STARTTLS) are
      # published directly — mail traffic bypasses Apache entirely, it only
      # ever proxies the panel's HTTP(S) (spec 10 p.2-3). The panel itself
      # (8080) is intentionally NOT published here: Apache reaches it over
      # the host network at 127.0.0.1:8080 (see the vhost fragment), so the
      # panel is never directly reachable from the internet without TLS.
      - "465:465"
      # 587 is mapped even when SUBMISSION_ENABLE=false; Postfix listens only
      # when the variable is true — see docs/guide.md "Published ports".
      - "587:587"
      - "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
    # Hardening (spec 10 p.6). SelfPost's entrypoint still needs to run as
    # root very briefly to fix /data ownership and normalise permissions
    # under the shared `selfpost` group (see build/entrypoint.sh) before
    # supervisord drops the panel to an unprivileged user — so this cannot be
    # `user: panel` or a fully read-only rootfs without breaking that startup
    # self-healing. What IS applied: no privilege escalation past what the
    # image already grants, and every Linux capability dropped except the
    # small set the root startup phase and Postfix/OpenDKIM genuinely need:
    #   - NET_BIND_SERVICE — bind 465/587 (and 25 outbound) below 1024;
    #   - CHOWN            — entrypoint re-owns /data (bind mount) to `panel`;
    #   - FOWNER           — entrypoint then chmods those now panel-owned /data
    #                        dirs/files while still root (owner-check bypass);
    #   - FSETID           — set the setgid bit (2750) on the shared /data dirs
    #                        when the process gid differs from the dir's group;
    #   - SETUID/SETGID    — supervisord drops the panel to the unprivileged
    #                        `panel` user; Postfix switches to its own users;
    #   - DAC_OVERRIDE     — cross-user file access within the `selfpost` group.
    #   - KILL             — supervisord (root) sends SIGUSR1 to opendkim (a
    #                        different uid) on domain add/remove to reload its
    #                        KeyTable/SigningTable; without it os.kill() fails
    #                        with EPERM even though the caller is root, because
    #                        the kernel's signal permission check for
    #                        cross-uid kill() still consults CAP_KILL.
    # FOWNER/FSETID are required by build/entrypoint.sh's permission
    # self-healing; without them chmod fails with EPERM and the container
    # crash-loops on start.
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true
    cap_drop:
      - ALL
    cap_add:
      - NET_BIND_SERVICE
      - CHOWN
      - FOWNER
      - FSETID
      - SETUID
      - SETGID
      - DAC_OVERRIDE
      - KILL