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A role is a named set of permissions given to accounts, groups and
tenants. It gets its own section under a new Access heading: every role
listed with the permissions it grants once its bases are followed, and a
panel to create, edit and delete one.

A role builds on others and has everything they grant; a denial anywhere in
the tree wins, which is how Stalwart resolves it (permissions.rs unions
enabled and disabled across the tree, then subtracts). The picker is
Stalwart's own list of permissions, under its headings, searchable and
filterable to what is granted or set here. Each permission is not set,
allowed or denied, and one that is inherited says which role it comes from.
Only permissions the viewer holds can be allowed, because Stalwart refuses
the rest, and a role carrying anything the viewer lacks opens read-only with
no delete, because Stalwart checks a grant but not a delete. Saving sends a
pointer for each permission and base role that changed.

The roles Stalwart hands out by default, read from x:Authentication, say so
before they are changed and cannot be deleted here; a role still in use is
kept by the server, and the refusal names what uses it.

The permission list is Stalwart's schema. A new route, GET
/api/admin/permissions, fetches /api/schema as the signed-in account and
returns only names and labels, behind the same two gates as the registry
methods and held in memory for an hour. Its labels are English only, so
every one of the 661 has a translation in each of the eight other
languages, in its own file keyed by permission name and loaded only when
Roles opens. A permission a later Stalwart adds shows its English label. A
test holds every language to the 0.16.22 snapshot: nothing missing, nothing
stale.

The mock answers x:Role/set with the grant check, loops and in-use
refusals, reads the defaults from x:Authentication, and serves the schema
gzipped as the real one is.

Fifty-two new strings and two plurals in all nine catalogues, and 661
permission labels with 59 headings in each of the eight translations.
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# ihasmail
**Immutable webmail for [Stalwart Mail Server](https://stalw.art) — a container
with nothing to persist, and a Gmail-class client on top of it.**
Mail, calendars, contacts, files and filters in a responsive single-page app
that works equally well on a desktop monitor and a phone. It talks only JMAP
(plus Stalwart's blob/upload/EventSource endpoints) — no IMAP, no SMTP, no
database, and with `IMMUTABLE=1` no writable filesystem either. Everything
durable belongs to Stalwart; the container is disposable.
| | |
| --- | --- |
| 🌐 **[ihasmail.org](https://ihasmail.org)** | What it is, what it looks like, the full feature list |
| 📘 **[docs.ihasmail.org](https://docs.ihasmail.org)** | [Installing](https://docs.ihasmail.org/install/) · [Configuring](https://docs.ihasmail.org/configure/) · [Using it](https://docs.ihasmail.org/using/) · [Shortcuts](https://docs.ihasmail.org/shortcuts/) · [Rebranding](https://docs.ihasmail.org/rebranding/) · [Troubleshooting](https://docs.ihasmail.org/troubleshooting/) |
| 📋 **[FEATURES.md](FEATURES.md)** | Everything it does, feature by feature, with the capability each one needs |
| 🧪 **[KNOWN-ISSUES.md](KNOWN-ISSUES.md)** | What was verified live, and where Stalwart departs from a spec |
| 🛣 **[ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md)** | What ihasmail does not do, and why |
### Companion tools
Two tools for getting a Stalwart server ready for ihasmail, one for each place
you might be starting from:
| | Starting from | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 🚀 **[ihasmail-oneshot](https://github.com/Coffey-Labs/ihasmail-oneshot)** | **Nothing** — a fresh Linux host with Docker | One command deploys a new Stalwart and a new ihasmail on a single host, already linked: certificates for both, the first mailboxes, and the DNS records to publish. Or `--local` for a loopback-only pair to try it |
| ⬆️ **[stalwart-migrator](https://github.com/Coffey-Labs/stalwart-migrator)** | **An existing Stalwart 0.15.5** server | Upgrades it in place to the 0.16 series ihasmail requires, checkpointing every phase so an interrupted run resumes, and validating the server afterwards. Take a snapshot first: it does not undo a migration |
> **Releases are weekly, so `latest` normally lags `main`.** Automation builds
> and publishes the GHCR image every **Monday at 09:00 UTC**, in a week that had
> changes. Between one Monday and the next, `main` is ahead of the newest image
> — a fix merged on Tuesday is a `docker pull` away only after the following
> Monday. GitHub runs scheduled workflows on a best-effort basis, so treat the
> hour as approximate.
>
> This is worth knowing when a closed issue says a fix is *live*: that means the
> QA webmail server, which deploys from `main`, and not the image you have. If
> you want a change before the next Monday, build from `main` — see
> [Container images](#container-images). Otherwise pull after it, and the dated
> tag tells you exactly which build you are on.
This file is for people working *on* ihasmail. Everything about running it
lives in the docs.
## Screenshots
*Taken against the built-in mock server (`npm run dev:mock`) with sample data — no real mailbox involved.*
| | |
| --- | --- |
| **Inbox & conversation (dark)** ![Inbox, dark theme](docs/screenshots/inbox-dark.jpg) | **Inbox & conversation (light)** ![Inbox, light theme](docs/screenshots/inbox-light.jpg) |
| **Composer** ![Composer](docs/screenshots/compose.jpg) | **Calendar** ![Calendar](docs/screenshots/calendar.jpg) |
| **Contacts** ![Contacts](docs/screenshots/contacts.jpg) | **Sieve filter builder** ![Filters](docs/screenshots/filters.jpg) |
More, including the mobile layout, on [ihasmail.org](https://ihasmail.org/#screenshots).
## What's in it
- **Mail** — three-pane Gmail-style layout, conversation view, virtualised list, labels, undo, Gmail search operators and keyboard shortcuts, Sieve rules from a message's context menu, sanitised HTML with remote images blocked, read receipts, invitations and RSVP, an event made from a message with its guests already in it, multi-composer rich-text editing with signatures, scheduled send and undo send
- **Calendar** — JMAP Calendars / JSCalendar: month/week/day/agenda, recurrence, attendees and free-busy, colour categories
- **Contacts** — JMAP Contacts / JSContact: address books, groups, full editor, vCard import/export
- **Files** — JMAP FileNode: browse, upload, download, rename, move, delete
- **Signature checking** — S/MIME signed mail is verified as you read it, and the signer is remembered: a later message from the same address signed by somebody else is called out loudly. No certificate authority is involved and none is bundled, so ihasmail never claims more than it can show — see [Checking a signature](FEATURES.md#checking-a-signature)
- **Settings that follow the account**, not the browser — kept in a `settings.json` in the account's own JMAP Files. The format is ihasmail's; the file is the account's, under its quota, and outlives any container that read it. ihasmail holds none of it
- **Runs read-only** — one optional write path, and with it switched off the container needs no volume and no writable root. `IMMUTABLE=1` is checked at startup rather than trusted, so a half-applied switch refuses to boot instead of failing quietly. See [Running immutably](#running-immutably)
- **Nine new interface languages** — German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Ukrainian, Simplified Chinese and Japanese, alongside English and separate from the date-and-time locale. Every one is marked **Beta**: they were made by AI and no native speaker has read them yet, which Settings says plainly, with a link for reporting anything wrong
- **Twelve themes** — Classic and ihasmail's own, plus Catppuccin, Dracula, Gruvbox, Rosé Pine, Tokyo Night, Solarized, Ayu, Kanagawa, Everforest and Primer, each with the light and dark half its own project publishes. Palette and light-or-dark are separate choices, and the accent colour still sits on top of any of them. Only published colour values are used, taken from each project's own repository; the shades between them are derived and every text colour is measured against the surface it sits on, so a palette that would not meet the contrast this app claims is not written at all — see [Themes](FEATURES.md#themes)
- **On a phone** — swipe a message to archive or delete it (either direction, your choice), hold one to select it, hold a folder for its menu, pull the list to refresh, swipe back from a conversation
- **Administration** — for an account whose Stalwart role manages accounts or domains, from the account menu: a dashboard of users, domains, queued mail, memory and the last day's received and sent, scoped to a tenant administrator's own tenancy; create, edit and delete accounts and set their passwords; create groups and add or remove their members; create mailing lists and paste in their recipients; build roles from Stalwart's permissions, in every language ihasmail speaks; add domains, copy their DNS records one at a time or as a zone file, see their DKIM keys, and remove them once nothing uses them. Each control is there only when the role allows it, and Stalwart decides every call. Only for a session signed in with *This is my own device* ticked, and `ADMINISTRATION=0` turns it off for everyone — see [Administration](FEATURES.md#administration)
- **Platform** — installable PWA, Web Push with ihasmail closed, `mailto:` handler, no credentials in the browser, strict CSP, SSRF-safe image proxy
The long version is on [ihasmail.org](https://ihasmail.org/#features); how to
drive each one is in [Using ihasmail](https://docs.ihasmail.org/using/).
## Requires Stalwart 0.16 or newer
Sign-in refuses anything older, by name. 0.16 replaced the REST management API
with JMAP registry objects, changed the shape of `FileNode`, split its rights up
and moved configuration into the store; supporting both generations meant a
wrong guess had somewhere to fall back to, so it failed *quietly* — and that
reached production. With one supported generation a wrong guess is a loud error
on the first call.
**Validated against 0.16.22**, released 13 September 2026: the live instance
runs it and the app has been tested against it. Four of its JMAP changes are
visible to a client, all in calendars and contacts:
`CalendarEvent/get` returns `baseEventId` only for a synthetic id, so an event
read by its stored id now carries `null` there rather than its own id; it
returns `null` for `recurrenceRule` and `recurrenceOverrides` asked for on a
synthetic id; `useDefaultAlerts` is stored per user and reads `false` when never
set; and `CalendarEvent/get` and `ContactCard/get` return only `id` for an empty
`properties` list, rather than everything. The mock reproduces all four.
Before it, **0.16.21**, released 6 September 2026: the app was run against a
real instance of it and the mail, calendar and contacts paths were exercised by
hand. Four of that release's JMAP changes are visible to a client
— an occurrence of a recurring event is now identified by its recurrence id
rather than by its position in the series, so an id held across a write no
longer silently names a different date; `Calendar/get` and `AddressBook/get`
return every property when none are named; EventSource advertises its ping
interval in seconds rather than milliseconds; and a calendar write that asks
for scheduling messages is refused when the account may not send them. The mock
reproduces those four.
- Still on 0.15? The last release that runs on it is tagged [`stalwart-0.15-support`](https://github.com/Coffey-Labs/ihasmail/releases/tag/stalwart-0.15-support).
- Upgrading? [stalwart-migrator](https://github.com/Coffey-Labs/stalwart-migrator) does it in place, checkpointing every phase and validating afterwards. The live instance moved 0.15.5 → 0.16.19 with eight seconds of downtime and nothing lost.
## Quick start (Docker)
No Stalwart yet? [ihasmail-oneshot](https://github.com/Coffey-Labs/ihasmail-oneshot)
sets up both on one host in a single command. The steps below are for pointing
ihasmail at a Stalwart you already run.
```bash
cp .env.example .env
# edit: STALWART_URL=https://mail.example.com and APP_SECRET=$(openssl rand -base64 48)
docker compose up --build -d
# → http://localhost:8080 (put Caddy/nginx in front for TLS; see Caddyfile.example / nginx.example.conf)
```
Users sign in with their Stalwart mailbox credentials. **An account with
two-factor authentication needs an app password**, created in Stalwart's own
settings — Stalwart accepts a TOTP code only through an OAuth flow and offers no
password grant, so no client holding a username and password can exchange them
plus a code for a token.
Full instructions, TLS, and every environment variable:
[Installing](https://docs.ihasmail.org/install/) ·
[Configuring](https://docs.ihasmail.org/configure/).
### Container images
Published to GHCR on every release, for `linux/amd64` and `linux/arm64`.
Releases are cut weekly — Mondays, 09:00 UTC, in a week that had changes — so
the newest image is normally behind `main`:
```bash
docker pull ghcr.io/coffey-labs/ihasmail:latest
```
| Tag | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| `latest` | The newest release. Prereleases never move it |
| `2026.9.2-pr243` | One specific build — the [version](#version-numbers) with `+` written as `-`, because a Docker tag may not contain `+` |
Pin the dated tag in anything you care about. `latest` is a moving target by
definition, and rolling back to a named tag is a `docker run` rather than a
rebuild.
Building it yourself stays fully supported and is what `docker compose up
--build` above does — the image is a convenience, not a new requirement. If you
build by hand, pass the version in, because `.dockerignore` excludes `.git` and
the build cannot work out what it is:
```bash
docker build --build-arg IHASMAIL_VERSION="$(node scripts/version.mjs)" -t ihasmail:local .
```
### Running immutably
The server writes to exactly one path, the optional `SESSION_FILE`. Clear it
and there is nothing left to write, so the container can run with no writable
filesystem at all:
```bash
docker run --read-only --tmpfs /tmp -e IMMUTABLE=1 -e SESSION_FILE= ...
```
`IMMUTABLE=1` is an assertion the server checks at startup rather than a switch
that changes what it does: it refuses to start if `SESSION_FILE` is still set,
or if the filesystem it is installed on turns out to be writable after all.
Without it the same misconfiguration is silent — sessions are held in memory
and persisting them is best-effort, so a read-only `/data` costs one warning at
the first sign-in and nothing else until the instance is replaced and everyone
is signed out.
That sign-out is the standing cost of this mode today, since sessions have
nowhere to live across a restart. Removing it means moving the session upstream
into a token Stalwart itself issues and can revoke, which is what the OAuth work
in [ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md) is for.
### Several Stalwart servers
One ihasmail can front more than one Stalwart, choosing by the domain somebody
signs in with. **`STALWART_URL` stays required and stays the default**, so an
installation that sets nothing else behaves exactly as it always has.
```bash
-e STALWART_SERVERS_FILE=/etc/ihasmail/servers.json \
-v /srv/ihasmail/servers.json:/etc/ihasmail/servers.json:ro
```
```json
{
"example.com": "https://mail.example.com",
"customer-b.test": "https://jmap.customer-b.test"
}
```
[`stalwart-servers.example.json`](stalwart-servers.example.json) is that file
with the rules written in it. A domain's value may also be an object that names
where that server's own administration is, for the Administration dashboard's
link — `{"url": "https://jmap.customer-b.test", "adminUrl": "https://admin.customer-b.test"}`.
`STALWART_ADMIN_URL` is the same for the default server. A listed domain with no
`adminUrl` gets no link rather than the default server's.
A domain nobody listed — and a bare username, which Stalwart accepts and which
has no domain at all — goes to `STALWART_URL`. **A listed domain never falls
back.** If its server is unreachable that sign-in fails rather than retrying
against the default, because falling back would authenticate somebody against a
server their domain was deliberately routed away from; if the same account name
existed there they would land in another tenant's mailbox.
Read once at startup, so editing it means restarting the container. Malformed
JSON, a duplicate domain once lower-cased, or a value that is not an `http(s)`
URL stops the server rather than failing quietly at somebody's sign-in. The
servers themselves are not contacted at boot — a mapping is a routing table,
not a health check, and one customer's outage must not stop ihasmail starting
for everybody else.
This is one server per *person*, chosen at sign-in. Several servers at once for
one person, with unified or cross-account views, is not supported: JMAP account
ids are only unique within a server, so it would mean namespacing ids through
the proxy. Reading somebody else's mail, calendars or files on the *same* server
already works through JMAP sharing.
### Settings the installation decides
A deployment can seed and lock user settings, which is what a school wanting
"warn about outside senders" on for three thousand pupils needs — asking three
thousand pupils is not a plan.
```bash
-e SETTINGS_DEFAULTS='{"externalSenderBanner":true}' \
-e SETTINGS_ENFORCED='{"externalRecipientConfirm":true}'
```
Three powers, and the differences between them matter:
| Section | Applies to | Reader can change it |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `defaults` | accounts that have never had settings of their own | yes, at any time |
| `enforced` | everyone, on every load | no — the control goes dead |
| `changes` | everyone, **once each**, including existing accounts | yes, afterwards, and it stays changed |
`changes` is the one that needs explaining. It turns something on for people who
are *already here* — the reason a plain default is not enough — while still
leaving them the last word. Each entry carries its own `version`, which every
account remembers once it has had it, so the change is applied exactly once per
person and a reader who turns it back off keeps it off. It is a schema migration
in shape, and that is deliberately whose idea it was ([#207]).
Nothing is configured by default: an installation that sets none of these
behaves exactly as ihasmail always has.
### Passing a policy to Docker
Where a file is easier to manage than JSON quoted in a unit file — and it
usually is once there are `changes` in it — mount one and name it:
```bash
docker run -d --name ihasmail \
-e STALWART_URL=https://mail.example.org \
-e APP_SECRET="$(openssl rand -hex 32)" \
-e SETTINGS_POLICY_FILE=/etc/ihasmail/policy.json \
-v /srv/ihasmail/policy.json:/etc/ihasmail/policy.json:ro \
-p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/coffey-labs/ihasmail:latest
```
```json
{
"defaults": { "externalSenderBanner": true },
"enforced": { "externalRecipientConfirm": true },
"changes": [
{ "version": "20260902084513", "settings": { "externalSenderBanner": true } },
{ "version": "20261014091500", "settings": { "externalLinkWarning": true } }
]
}
```
[`settings-policy.example.json`](settings-policy.example.json) in this repo is
that file with every section explained in it — copy it and delete what you do
not want.
Mount it read-only: the server only ever reads it, and `:ro` keeps that true
under `--read-only` as well.
Or without a file at all, which is what an immutable deployment with no volume
wants:
```bash
docker run -d --name ihasmail --read-only --tmpfs /tmp \
-e IMMUTABLE=1 -e SESSION_FILE= \
-e STALWART_URL=https://mail.example.org \
-e APP_SECRET="$(openssl rand -hex 32)" \
-e SETTINGS_DEFAULTS='{"externalSenderBanner":true}' \
-e SETTINGS_ENFORCED='{"externalRecipientConfirm":true}' \
-e SETTINGS_CHANGES='[{"version":"20260902084513","settings":{"externalSenderBanner":true}}]' \
-p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/coffey-labs/ihasmail:latest
```
In `docker-compose.yml`:
```yaml
services:
ihasmail:
image: ghcr.io/coffey-labs/ihasmail:latest
environment:
SETTINGS_POLICY_FILE: /etc/ihasmail/policy.json
volumes:
- ./policy.json:/etc/ihasmail/policy.json:ro
```
A policy is read once at startup, so **editing it means restarting the
container**. There is no reload signal, deliberately: an installation-wide
setting changing under a running instance would be harder to reason about than
one that changes when you say so.
### Writing a policy
Both sections take the same names and values a settings export uses, so
`Settings → General → Export` on one account you have configured by hand is the
quickest way to write one — copy the keys you care about out of the file.
Three checks worth knowing about, because they fail loudly rather than quietly:
- **Malformed JSON stops the server at startup.** A policy that silently did not
apply is indistinguishable from the feature not working.
- **Every change needs a unique `version`.** Two changes sharing one, or a change
with no `version` or no `settings`, is a startup error.
- **Keys this build does not have are dropped**, the same rule an imported
settings file gets. A `changes` entry whose keys are *all* unknown is dropped
whole rather than recorded as applied, so it still runs on an ihasmail that
does have the setting.
Enforcement is applied in the settings store rather than only on the controls,
so an imported settings file, a settings file synced from a device that predates
the policy, and "reset to defaults" cannot get around it. Reset returns to your
defaults, not to ihasmail's.
[#207]: https://github.com/Coffey-Labs/ihasmail/issues/207
## Architecture
```
browser ──(same-origin /api/*)──► ihasmail server (Node + Hono) ──(JMAP over HTTPS)──► Stalwart
React SPA • session cookie ⇄ Basic auth
JMAP client + stores • /api/jmap, /api/blob, /api/upload, /api/events (SSE), /api/image
```
- `web/` — Vite + React 19 + TypeScript SPA. `src/jmap` (client, push, types), `src/store` (zustand: session, mail, compose, contacts, calendar, files, sieve, settings), `src/views`, `src/lib` (sanitiser, search parser, Sieve codec, locale-aware dates, vCard, …).
- `server/` — Node/Hono backend: authenticates against Stalwart's JMAP session endpoint, seals the credentials with a key derived from the cookie secret, proxies JMAP/blob/SSE, serves the SPA under a strict CSP. `src/mock/` is an in-memory fake Stalwart for development and demos.
Capabilities used: `core`, `mail`, `submission`, `vacationresponse`, `sieve`,
`contacts`(+`parse`), `calendars`(+`parse`), `principals`(+`availability`),
`quota`, `blob`, `filenode`, EventSource push, plus Stalwart's own
`urn:stalwart:jmap` (read-only). Features degrade gracefully when one is
missing.
## Development
Requirements: Node ≥ 20.19 (26 recommended), npm ≥ 10.
```bash
npm install
npm run dev # real Stalwart (STALWART_URL in .env) — server :8080, Vite :5173
npm run dev:mock # built-in mock Stalwart ([email protected] / demo), mock on :8788
npm run dev:mock:no-future-release # mock that advertises FUTURERELEASE and drops every hold
npm run typecheck # tsc for both packages
npm test # vitest (web) + node:test (server)
npm run build # web/dist + server/dist
npm start # serve the production build
```
Open http://localhost:5173 in dev, or http://localhost:8080 for the production
build. Running it for real is covered in
[Installing](https://docs.ihasmail.org/install/) and
[Configuring](https://docs.ihasmail.org/configure/).
### The mock
An in-memory fake Stalwart 0.16 — enough JMAP to develop and demo against
without a real mailbox. It reproduces the things a naive fake would get wrong,
because each cost a live debugging session: `urn:stalwart:jmap` advertised
**per-account** rather than session-level, identity signatures capped at 2047
**bytes**, and `CalendarEvent/set` speaking Stalwart's vocabulary rather than
RFC 8984's. Five switches: `MOCK_NO_FUTURE_RELEASE=1` advertises FUTURERELEASE
and then drops every hold; `MOCK_NO_REGISTRY=1` omits the Stalwart capability so
the sign-in refusal can be tested; and `MOCK_NO_SCHEDULING_SEND=1` refuses a
calendar write that asks for scheduling messages, the way an account without
that permission is refused; `MOCK_ROLE` decides who the demo user is for
Administration — `admin` (the default), `tenant-admin`, `helpdesk` or `user`;
and `MOCK_METRICS=off` refuses the dashboard's metric history, as Community does.
It tracks the current release rather than 0.16 in general, and each behaviour
is confirmed against a real server before it is copied here — the comments say
which version and on what date. Where a release changes something a client can
see, the mock changes with it, and the test that pinned the old behaviour is
rewritten rather than deleted, so the reversal stays on the record.
### Version numbers
`ihasmail v2026.8.30+pr129` — the date of the commit this was built from, and
the pull request that commit arrived through. A commit that did not arrive
through one carries its short SHA instead: `2026.8.30+g1fa6578`. It all comes
from git at build time; nothing writes a version into the tree, and
`package.json` sits at `0.0.0` because it is no longer the source of anything.
The date is the commit's own rather than today's, so rebuilding an old commit
gives the version it had the first time.
```bash
node scripts/version.mjs # the version for the current checkout
docker build --build-arg IHASMAIL_VERSION="$(node scripts/version.mjs)" -t ihasmail:2026.8.30 .
```
`.dockerignore` excludes `.git` deliberately, so an image build cannot work this
out for itself — pass it in. Left out, the build reports `0.0.0`, which is meant
to look wrong: a version with no `+pr` or `+g` means whoever built the image did
not pass one.
The version says nothing about Stalwart, deliberately. It used to: `2.16.x` had
`16` for the 0.16 generation it targeted, which leaves nowhere to go once
Stalwart reaches 1.0 — `2.1` sorts *below* the `2.16` already deployed, so every
image and About screen would read as a downgrade. Which Stalwart a build needs is
stated where it can be precise, in the badge at the top of this file and in
[KNOWN-ISSUES.md](KNOWN-ISSUES.md), rather than compressed into one digit.
The pull request lives after the `+`, as build metadata, because it is
provenance rather than a rank: at the rate they merge here it climbs without
bound and says nothing about how new a build is. Everything after the `+` is
ignored when versions are compared, which is the right reading — two builds from
the same day differ in where they came from, not in age. Nothing here depends on
that comparison: images are pruned oldest-first by creation time, and a rollback
names a git ref.
### Deploying
[`deploy.example.sh`](deploy.example.sh) is a single-host Docker deploy: it
fetches, refuses anything held back by `.deploy-hold`, shows what is about to be
introduced and asks, rebuilds with the right version baked in, replaces the
container, waits for healthy, then prunes all but the newest
`IHASMAIL_KEEP_VERSIONS` images — never the one actually running.
```bash
./deploy.sh # origin/main, asks before shipping new commits
./deploy.sh --dry-run # run the guards and stop
./deploy.sh v2026.8.30 --yes # a named ref, no prompt (there is no tty over ssh)
```
`--yes` does not override a hold; clearing one means deleting its line.
## Contributing
[CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) · [CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) ·
[SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md) — please report vulnerabilities privately.
## License
Copyright (C) 2026 Coffey Labs — AGPL-3.0-or-later. See
[LICENSE](LICENSE).
ihasmail was relicensed from GPL-3.0 to AGPL-3.0 on 2026-08-25: webmail is
nearly always run as a network service rather than handed to anyone as a binary,
and the AGPL's section 13 closes that gap.
That offer has to point at *your* source, not this one. 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](https://docs.ihasmail.org/rebranding/).