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Rename the identifiers that carried the upstream name
Everything clients, users and operators meet now carries the fork's name,
with no aliases (SPEC.md §2.4, changed here from "protocol identifiers
stay"):

- JMAP: upstream's registry capability is urn:inbuxa:jmap:registry, beside
  the fork's own urn:inbuxa:jmap.
- WebDAV lock and sync tokens are urn:inbuxa:dav*; clients resync once.
- Sieve: vnd.inbuxa.while and vnd.inbuxa.expressions. sieve-rs spells these
  into its compiler, so it's vendored (vendor/sieve-rs, 0.7.3) and patched in;
  a unit test fails if Cargo.lock ever moves past the vendored copy. The
  trusted runtime now names itself too, rather than answering sieve-rs's
  default.
- The web interface's OAuth client is inbuxa-webui. On every start the old
  stalwart-webui client is removed and any application naming it is moved
  over.
- The spam filter's blobs are INBUXA_SPAM_*; every start moves any left
  under the old keys, so a trained model survives.
- SQL stores and log files default to inbuxa, in the code and in the
  schema served to the admin (checksum regenerated).
- Settings are INBUXA_* only. A STALWART_* variable that's set where its
  INBUXA_* one isn't stops the server at startup, naming it.
- The version-upgrade messages link docs.inbuxa.org's migration page, and
  the OpenAPI description, smtp crate metadata and web-push test fixtures
  lose the name.

Kept on purpose, allowlisted with reasons: the OAuth key-derivation
contexts (renaming them would end every session and invalidate every
sealed client id) and the hashed application prefix.

Also fixes a latent start-up failure: ensure_client updated an existing
first-party client with a revision of 0, which the registry's assertion
never matches, so adding a redirect URI or changing the webmail secret
failed start-up. And the principal session test now expects
legacyProtocols (C-1, added 2026-09-21), which it had missed.

Tested: the server builds without warnings; common's 106 unit tests,
including the vendoring check; a new integration test for the two
start-up migrations; and the webdav, jmap, imap and SMTP Sieve suites.
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<p align="center">
<img src="./img/brand/inbuxa-lockup-light.svg" alt="inbuxa" height="140">
</p>
<h3 align="center">
A complete mail and collaboration server, every feature included, under the AGPL
</h3>
---
**INBUXA** is a mail and collaboration server: JMAP, IMAP, POP3, SMTP,
CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV, in one Rust binary, with ihasmail as its web front
end. It is a fork of [Stalwart](https://github.com/stalwartlabs/stalwart).
Project site: [inbuxa.org](https://inbuxa.org). Documentation: [docs.inbuxa.org](https://docs.inbuxa.org).
Stalwart ships some features only in a paid Enterprise Edition: multi-tenancy,
masked email, undelete and others. INBUXA ships everything to everybody under
the AGPL-3.0, rebuilding those features independently and without using any
of Stalwart's Enterprise code.
## What's different from Stalwart
- **Every feature, one edition.** No license key, no edition checks, no
upsell. See `docs/spec/SPEC.md` §4 for the features being rebuilt, and
`docs/spec/features/` for each one's specification.
- **Webmail and administration by ihasmail,** as a separate service that can
run beside the server or elsewhere. Stalwart's own web interface is removed,
so there's no web front end on the mail host.
- **Clean-room rebuilds.** Enterprise-only code is stripped from every
upstream release before it's imported. The rebuilt features are written
from specifications that use only public sources (`docs/spec/SPEC.md` §3).
## How the fork is kept
Upstream releases arrive as stripped snapshots, never with upstream's git
history, which contains Enterprise code. `tools/fork/strip.py` builds each
snapshot on top of upstream's own `ossify.py`, then verifies it independently.
The report for every import is in `docs/fork/strip-reports/`. See
`docs/spec/SPEC.md` §2.
## Building
```bash
cargo build --release -p inbuxa # the binary is target/release/inbuxa
docker build -t inbuxa . # or the container image
```
Settings are read from `INBUXA_*` environment variables. An existing Stalwart
install's `STALWART_*` variables aren't read: the server stops at startup and
names each one to rename.
New installs keep their data in `/var/lib/inbuxa` and logs in
`/var/log/inbuxa`. Existing installs keep the paths their configuration
already names, so none of their data moves.
## License and credits
INBUXA is free software under the [GNU Affero General Public License,
version 3](./LICENSES/AGPL-3.0-only.txt).
It is a fork of Stalwart, copyright © Stalwart Labs LLC, **modified by
Coffey Labs in 2026**. Upstream's copyright notices are kept on every file
they cover, and every upstream file this fork changed says so in its header,
under the notice it came with. Stalwart's files are dual-licensed
AGPL-3.0-only or Stalwart's Enterprise License, and INBUXA takes them under
the AGPL-3.0 only. A few of those files also carry code from other projects
under MIT or BSD licenses, which stays under those licenses;
[THIRD-PARTY.md](./THIRD-PARTY.md) lists it with its notices. "Stalwart" is
Stalwart Labs' name. INBUXA isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Stalwart
Labs.
The INBUXA mark reuses ihasmail's cat-and-envelope artwork.