On a 250 ms link, opening a conversation took two round trips: Thread/get, then the bodies. It now takes one. A known thread sends Thread/get and the missing bodies in the same tick; an unknown one chains Email/get off Thread/get with a back-reference, and falls back to fetching in parts when the thread is longer than one Email/get may carry. Conversations also start loading before the click: when the pointer rests on a row, as soon as a press begins, and for the row below the open one. The open waits for that load and does not repeat it. Going back to one of the last twelve folders shows its previous list at once, less messages that have left it, while the query runs.
Try the demo
A working copy with an invented mailbox behind it — no sign-up, nothing real, nothing kept.
ihasmail
Immutable webmail for Stalwart Mail Server. Mail, calendars, contacts, files and filters in one app that works as well on a phone as on a desktop — and a container with nothing to persist.
ihasmail talks only JMAP to Stalwart. There is no database, no IMAP or SMTP,
and with IMMUTABLE=1 no writable filesystem either: everything durable,
settings included, belongs to Stalwart, so the container is disposable.
| 🌐 ihasmail.org | What it is, what it looks like, the full feature list |
| 📘 docs.ihasmail.org | Installing · Configuring · Using it · Shortcuts · Rebranding · Troubleshooting |
| 📋 FEATURES.md | Everything it does, feature by feature, with the capability each one needs |
| 🧪 KNOWN-ISSUES.md | What was verified live, and where Stalwart departs from a spec |
| 🛣 ROADMAP.md | What ihasmail does not do, and why |
Screenshots
Inbox & conversation (dark) ![]() |
Inbox & conversation (light) ![]() |
Composer ![]() |
Calendar ![]() |
Contacts ![]() |
Sieve filter builder ![]() |
Taken against the built-in mock with sample data. More, including the phone layout, on ihasmail.org.
What's in it
- Mail — conversations, labels, search operators, keyboard shortcuts, scheduled and undo send, invitations and RSVP, filters made from a message
- Calendar — month, week, day and agenda views, recurrence, attendees and free-busy
- Contacts — address books, groups, vCard import and export
- Files — browse, upload, move, share
- Signature checking — S/MIME signed mail verified as you read it
- Settings that follow the account, kept in the account's own storage on Stalwart
- On a phone — swipe to archive or delete, pull to refresh, hold to select
- Administration — a dashboard, accounts, groups, mailing lists, roles, tenants and domains, each shown only when the Stalwart role allows it
- Ten interface languages and twelve themes — the nine translations are marked Beta until a native speaker has read them
- Platform — installable PWA, Web Push,
mailto:handler, no credentials in the browser, strict CSP
The long version is FEATURES.md and ihasmail.org.
Requirements
Stalwart 0.16 or newer — sign-in refuses anything older, by name. Tested against 0.16.22; what changed in each release is in KNOWN-ISSUES.md.
- No Stalwart yet? ihasmail-oneshot deploys a new Stalwart and ihasmail together on one host, in one command.
- On Stalwart 0.15? stalwart-migrator upgrades it in place, or stay on the
stalwart-0.15-supportrelease.
Quick start (Docker)
cp .env.example .env
# edit: STALWART_URL=https://mail.example.com and APP_SECRET=$(openssl rand -base64 48)
docker compose up --build -d
# → http://localhost:8080 — put a reverse proxy in front for TLS
Or pull the published image, ghcr.io/coffey-labs/ihasmail. Releases are
weekly, so it is usually a few days behind main.
People sign in with their Stalwart mailbox credentials. An account with two-factor authentication needs an app password, created in Stalwart's own settings.
Everything else — TLS, running immutably, several Stalwart servers, settings the installation decides, every environment variable — is in Installing and Configuring.
Development
npm install
npm run dev:mock # built-in mock Stalwart ([email protected] / demo)
npm test
Architecture, the mock's switches and how versions are numbered are in CONTRIBUTING.md.
Contributing
CONTRIBUTING.md · CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md · SECURITY.md — please report vulnerabilities privately.
License
Copyright (C) 2026 Coffey Labs — AGPL-3.0-or-later. See LICENSE.
If you run a modified ihasmail, set SOURCE_URL to your own repository: the
sign-in page and Settings › About both show it. See
Rebranding.






