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@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Mox is a modern full-featured open source secure mail server for low-maintenance
See Quickstart below to get started.
Mox features:
## Features
- Quick and easy to start/maintain mail server, for your own domain(s).
- SMTP (with extensions) for receiving and submitting email.
@ -33,38 +33,9 @@ Mox features:
easy account setup (though not many clients support it).
- Prometheus metrics and structured logging for operational insight.
Not supported (but perhaps in the future):
- Webmail
- HTTP-based API for sending messages and receiving delivery feedback
- Calendaring
- Functioning as SMTP relay
- Forwarding (to an external address)
- Autoresponders
- POP3
- Delivery to (unix) OS system users
- Sieve for filtering
- PGP or S/MIME
- Mailing list manager
- Support for pluggable delivery mechanisms.
Mox has automated tests, including for interoperability with Postfix for SMTP.
Mox is manually tested with email clients: Mozilla Thunderbird, mutt, iOS Mail,
macOS Mail, Android Mail, Microsoft Outlook.
Mox is also manually tested to interoperate with popular cloud providers:
gmail.com, outlook.com, yahoo.com, proton.me.
Mox is implemented in Go, a modern safe programming language, and has a focus on
security.
Mox is available under the MIT-license.
Mox includes the Public Suffix List by Mozilla, under Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0.
Mox was created by Mechiel Lukkien, mechiel@ueber.net.
For discussions/talk, join #mox on irc.oftc.net, or #mox on the "Gopher slack".
Mox is available under the MIT-license and was created by Mechiel Lukkien,
mechiel@ueber.net. Mox includes the Public Suffix List by Mozilla, under Mozilla
Public License, v2.0.
# Download
@ -113,6 +84,56 @@ requires more configuration.
After starting, you can access the admin web interface on internal IPs.
# Future/development
Mox has automated tests, including for interoperability with Postfix for SMTP.
Mox is manually tested with email clients: Mozilla Thunderbird, mutt, iOS Mail,
macOS Mail, Android Mail, Microsoft Outlook. Mox is also manually tested to
interoperate with popular cloud providers: gmail.com, outlook.com, yahoo.com,
proton.me.
The code is heavily cross-referenced with the RFCs for readability/maintainability.
## Roadmap
- Strict vs lax mode, defaulting to lax when receiving from the internet, and
strict when sending.
- "developer server" mode, to easily launch a local SMTP/IMAP server to test
your apps mail sending capabilities.
- Rate limiting and spam detection for submitted/outgoing messages, to reduce
impact when an account gets compromised.
- Privilege separation, isolating parts of the application to more restricted
sandbox (e.g. new unauthenticated connections).
- DANE and DNSSEC.
- Sending DMARC and TLS reports (currently only receiving).
- OAUTH2 support, for single sign on.
- Basic reverse proxy, so port 443 can be used for regular web serving too.
- Using mox as backup MX.
- ACME verification over HTTP (in addition to current tls-alpn01).
- Add special IMAP mailbox ("Queue?") that contains queued but
not-yet-delivered messages.
- Old-style internationalization in messages.
- Calendaring
- Webmail
There are many smaller improvements to make as well, search for "todo" in the code.
## Not supported
But perhaps in the future...
- Sieve for filtering (for now see Rulesets in the account config)
- HTTP-based API for sending messages and receiving delivery feedback
- Functioning as SMTP relay
- Forwarding (to an external address)
- Autoresponders
- POP3
- Delivery to (unix) OS system users
- PGP or S/MIME
- Mailing list manager
- Support for pluggable delivery mechanisms
# FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
## Why a new mail server implementation?
@ -169,6 +190,12 @@ Pull requests for bug fixes and new code are welcome too. If the changes are
large, it helps to start a discussion (create a ticket) before doing all the
work.
## Where can I discuss mox?
Join #mox on irc.oftc.net, or #mox on the "Gopher slack".
For bug reports, please file an issue at https://github.com/mjl-/mox/issues/new.
## How do I change my password?
Regular users (doing IMAP/SMTP with authentication) can change their password