Is there any docker compose environment for mail server

[vinkvii]

Hi I was looking to setup this mail server in docker. Do we have any plan to document it.

Thanks

[ladar]

@vinkal I started the robox project to create VMs / containers for just that purpose. And while I've gotten the VMs working (mostly), they are currently designed to spin up a sandbox/dev/test environment, and not a production install. And while I've been building the docker images for awhile, I haven't tested/finished them. There are a couple of tweaks that are missing to get it working, like detecting/starting the dependent services. And most importantly either a Q/A install script (see #132) for configuration and/or sample Dockerfiles showing how to do the same.

If you took on the task, I'd welcome a pull request.

[ladar]

There is another unoffical magma container besides the lavabit one, which might work better for you.

[robrecord]

There is another unoffical magma container besides the lavabit one, which might work better for you.

Can you report on which one that is, please?

Is it this one? https://github.com/ba0f3/docker-magma/

[ladar]

Hi @robrecord @vinkal ... I'd always intended to go back and improve the images pushed to Docker Hub and Quay for Magma. But I don't use containers all that much (I prefer VMs for what I typically need) so I never acquired the skills to make the obvious improvements.

With that, those images are generated from scratch (install media), every 1 to 3 weeks as part of the Roboxes project. Which means if you have the skills, please submit a pull request that repo with the changes need to make the container images more useful.

Notable things I haven't looked into, are how to launch the MySQL, memcached, and Postfix daemons automatically, whenver a container image is launched/resumed.

I also figured I'd follow the pattern used by the Robox VM images for magma, automatically build magma, and run the unit tests a starting point. But I wanted, long term, if it was possible to create a simple setup script that queries the user for info, so they can easily get it setup for their own domain, etc. But again, I don't know to do that, and have never found the time to learn.

[Lrss]

When you say "queries the user for info", do you mean something like Mailu's interactive setup webpage?

[ladar]

Like I said, I don;t have experience with what users expect in the world of Docker. Having to access a web page seems tricky. I was actually thinking it would create a shell connection, and run a Bash or Python script to ask the user some basic questions, like their domain name, password etc.

[Lrss]

The way Mailu does is definitely a novelty way of doing it. The conventional way is to set environmental variables directly in the docker-compose.yml, for projects with few settings. And in more customizable projects (as this one) it is preferred to declare it in a separate .env-file.