tailwart/README.md
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](https://github.com/stalwartlabs/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](./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
```bash
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.