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Wayne Hayes 2eb8a0c225 Scaffold tailwart: Stalwart mailbox as a Tailscale sidecar 
Over-engineered play stack for infinidim.net — Stalwart wired into the shared
Postgres + Redis + Garage S3 over the tailnet, with no WAN presence. Public
mail ports are fronted by a separate caddy-l4 layer-4 proxy (caddy/) that can
run on any tailnet host tagged tag:reverse-proxy — decoupled from the mailbox.

- docker-compose.yml: ts-stalwart sidecar + stalwart, backends via MagicDNS
- config/config.toml: PG (data/fts) + Redis (lookup) + S3 (blob) strawman
- caddy/: xcaddy build with caddy-l4, JSON layer-4 mail proxy, own compose
- acl-snippet.hujson: tag:stalwart owner + backend/edge grants
- .env.example + gitignored .env (pulled from shared infra)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-03 22:25:38 -04:00

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tailwart

Tailscale × Stalwart. A mailbox with no WAN presence, fronted by a layer-4 proxy that can live on another machine entirely.

A deliberately over-engineered playground: Stalwart mail server wired into Postgres + Redis + Garage S3 at once, deployed as a Tailscale sidecar, with a separate caddy-l4 edge that pipes the raw mail ports over the tailnet. For infinidim.net.

See CLAUDE.md for the architecture and the gotchas.

Layout

tailwart/
├── docker-compose.yml      # the mailbox: ts-stalwart sidecar + stalwart
├── config/config.toml      # Stalwart config — PG + Redis + S3 wiring (strawman)
├── caddy/                  # the edge: custom Caddy (caddy-l4) layer-4 mail proxy
│   ├── Dockerfile          #   xcaddy build with caddy-l4 + ratelimit
│   ├── caddy.json          #   :25/465/587/143/993 → stalwart over the tailnet
│   ├── docker-compose.yml  #   deploy on any public-IP, tailnet, tag:reverse-proxy host
│   └── README.md
├── acl-snippet.hujson      # tag:stalwart owner + grants to merge into your policy
├── .env.example            # operator surface — copy to .env
└── .gitignore

Quickstart

cp .env.example .env && $EDITOR .env        # fill secrets (see CLAUDE.md prereqs)

# 1. create the stalwart role/db in shared Postgres + the Garage bucket
#    (one-off; see CLAUDE.md "Prerequisites")
# 2. admin console: assign tag:stalwart to the OAuth client + paste acl-snippet
# 3. bring up the mailbox (tailnet-only)
docker compose up -d
# 4. bring up the edge (binds public mail ports; can be a different host)
cd caddy && docker compose up -d --build

Then point infinidim.net's MX at the edge host, add SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and finish configuration in Stalwart's web admin (mail.infinidim.net).

Status

Scaffold / strawman. The Stalwart config.toml keys need verifying against a pinned image version before first real boot — treat it as a starting shape, not a turnkey config.