jcoffey-dev 4336251cea Specs: the ACME failure isn't ufw, and pebble does validate
The page blamed ufw for blocking the docker bridge, and said pebble never
validates, so the authorizations stay pending. All three are wrong.

From a container on the ACME network the host answers on both gateway
addresses: port 22 connects, and 8899 refuses at once with nothing
listening, where a DROP would hang. No firewall rule was read or changed to
establish that. Pebble's own log shows 20 validation attempts in the
regression run, five for each of the four tls.org names, each ending in
"INVALID by completed challenge". The challenges are answered and refused.

So the order goes invalid, no certificate is issued, and the test unwraps a
None. What's left to explain is the TLS-ALPN handshake. The responder is
intact and listen.rs picks it per connection from has_acme_tls_challenge,
which is computed when the network config is parsed, while the test adds
its provider after boot. That's written down as a hypothesis, not a
finding: it hasn't been tested.
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inbuxa

A complete mail and collaboration server, every feature included, under the AGPL


INBUXA is a mail and collaboration server: JMAP, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV, in one Rust binary, with ihasmail as its web front end. It is a fork of Stalwart. Project site: inbuxa.org (not up yet).

Stalwart ships some features only in a paid Enterprise Edition: multi-tenancy, masked email, undelete and others. INBUXA ships everything to everybody under the AGPL-3.0, rebuilding those features independently and without using any of Stalwart's Enterprise code.

Status: in development, not released. The fork builds, passes its unit tests, and runs as a working mail server. The Enterprise features are being specified and haven't been rebuilt yet. Don't run it in production.

What's different from Stalwart

  • Every feature, one edition. No license key, no edition checks, no upsell. See docs/spec/SPEC.md §4 for the features being rebuilt, and docs/spec/features/ for each one's specification.
  • Webmail and administration by ihasmail, as a separate service that can run beside the server or elsewhere. Stalwart's own web interface is removed, so there's no web front end on the mail host.
  • Clean-room rebuilds. Enterprise-only code is stripped from every upstream release before it's imported. The rebuilt features are written from specifications that use only public sources (docs/spec/SPEC.md §3).

How the fork is kept

Upstream releases arrive as stripped snapshots, never with upstream's git history, which contains Enterprise code. tools/fork/strip.py builds each snapshot on top of upstream's own ossify.py, then verifies it independently. The report for every import is in docs/fork/strip-reports/. See docs/spec/SPEC.md §2.

Building

cargo build --release -p inbuxa          # the binary is target/release/inbuxa
docker build -t inbuxa .                 # or the container image

Settings are read from INBUXA_* environment variables. An existing Stalwart install's STALWART_* variables still work, with a warning to rename them. New installs keep their data in /var/lib/inbuxa and logs in /var/log/inbuxa. Existing installs keep the paths their configuration already names, so none of their data moves.

License and credits

INBUXA is free software under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.

It is a fork of Stalwart, copyright © Stalwart Labs LLC. Upstream's copyright notices are kept on every file they cover. Stalwart's files are dual-licensed AGPL-3.0-only or Stalwart's Enterprise License, and INBUXA takes them under the AGPL-3.0 only. A few of those files also carry code from other projects under MIT or BSD licenses, which stays under those licenses; THIRD-PARTY.md lists it with its notices. "Stalwart" is Stalwart Labs' name. INBUXA isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Stalwart Labs.

The INBUXA mark reuses ihasmail's cat-and-envelope artwork.

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