Ask for the account password before minting an app password, and keep sessions the proxy checks from writing the account's own registry objects, so a session left open on someone else's machine cannot take a credential away from it. The password is compared with what the session holds; Stalwart is asked only when 2FA moved the session onto an app password. Serve attachments and proxied images with no-store on a device that is not the person's own. Give files from a winmail.dat only the types the server would show inline. Strip direction controls from sender and attachment names and from saved filenames. On signing out, send what is inside its undo window, then close every composer, so the next person to sign in does not find the last one's draft. Group sessions by the account Stalwart names and its server, so "sign out other sessions" also reaches a session opened as a bare or differently cased username.
Try the demo
A working copy with an invented mailbox behind it — no sign-up, nothing real, nothing kept.
ihasmail
Immutable webmail for Stalwart Mail Server. Mail, calendars, contacts, files and filters in one app that works as well on a phone as on a desktop — and a container with nothing to persist.
ihasmail talks only JMAP to Stalwart. There is no database, no IMAP or SMTP,
and with IMMUTABLE=1 no writable filesystem either: everything durable,
settings included, belongs to Stalwart, so the container is disposable.
| 🌐 ihasmail.org | What it is, what it looks like, the full feature list |
| 📘 docs.ihasmail.org | Installing · Configuring · Using it · Shortcuts · Rebranding · Troubleshooting |
| 📋 FEATURES.md | Everything it does, feature by feature, with the capability each one needs |
| 🧪 KNOWN-ISSUES.md | What was verified live, and where Stalwart departs from a spec |
| 🛣 ROADMAP.md | What ihasmail does not do, and why |
Screenshots
Inbox & conversation (dark) ![]() |
Inbox & conversation (light) ![]() |
Composer ![]() |
Calendar ![]() |
Contacts ![]() |
Sieve filter builder ![]() |
Taken against the built-in mock with sample data. More, including the phone layout, on ihasmail.org.
What's in it
- Mail — conversations, labels, search operators, keyboard shortcuts, scheduled and undo send, invitations and RSVP, filters made from a message
- Calendar — month, week, day and agenda views, recurrence, attendees and free-busy
- Contacts — address books, groups, vCard import and export
- Files — browse, upload, move, share
- Signature checking — S/MIME signed mail verified as you read it
- Settings that follow the account, kept in the account's own storage on Stalwart
- On a phone — swipe to archive or delete, pull to refresh, hold to select
- Administration — a dashboard, accounts, groups, mailing lists, roles, tenants and domains, each shown only when the Stalwart role allows it
- Ten interface languages and twelve themes — the nine translations are marked Beta until a native speaker has read them
- Platform — installable PWA, Web Push,
mailto:handler, no credentials in the browser, strict CSP
The long version is FEATURES.md and ihasmail.org.
Requirements
Stalwart 0.16 or newer — sign-in refuses anything older, by name. Tested against 0.16.22; what changed in each release is in KNOWN-ISSUES.md.
- No Stalwart yet? ihasmail-oneshot deploys a new Stalwart and ihasmail together on one host, in one command.
- On Stalwart 0.15? stalwart-migrator upgrades it in place, or stay on the
stalwart-0.15-supportrelease.
Quick start (Docker)
cp .env.example .env
# edit: STALWART_URL=https://mail.example.com and APP_SECRET=$(openssl rand -base64 48)
docker compose up --build -d
# → http://localhost:8080 — put a reverse proxy in front for TLS
Or pull the published image, ghcr.io/coffey-labs/ihasmail. Releases are
weekly, so it is usually a few days behind main.
People sign in with their Stalwart mailbox credentials. An account with two-factor authentication needs an app password, created in Stalwart's own settings.
Everything else — TLS, running immutably, several Stalwart servers, settings the installation decides, every environment variable — is in Installing and Configuring.
Development
npm install
npm run dev:mock # built-in mock Stalwart ([email protected] / demo)
npm test
Architecture, the mock's switches and how versions are numbered are in CONTRIBUTING.md.
Contributing
CONTRIBUTING.md · CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md · SECURITY.md — please report vulnerabilities privately.
License
Copyright (C) 2026 Coffey Labs — AGPL-3.0-or-later. See LICENSE.
If you run a modified ihasmail, set SOURCE_URL to your own repository: the
sign-in page and Settings › About both show it. See
Rebranding.






