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One container providing SMTP/IMAP/POP3/JMAP plus CalDAV/CardDAV, an admin UI and spam filtering — chosen over mailcow (owns its own installer, which is what killed the earlier attempt now sitting in scripts/unused/) and over Mailu (~7 containers) because a single image with a single data dir is the only shape that fits the existing conventions cleanly: one anchor service the updater can version, one path the backup engine can snapshot. Mail-specific departures from the usual app template, each deliberate: * Ports are FIXED, not random. Other mail servers connect to :25 by number and clients expect 465/587/993 — a randomised external port would silently make the server unreachable. Only the admin UI takes a random port, since that one really is just a browser behind Traefik. 143/995/4190/443 ship disabled; the port processor comments them out. * UPDATE_TYPE=manual and the image pinned to v0.16, not :latest. Stalwart is pre-1.0 and has said the storage schema is still being finalised, so an unattended minor bump could carry a data migration on the message store. This is the one app where the auto default is wrong. * BACKUP_STRATEGY=stop-snapshot-start. The message store is written continuously; a live copy can land mid-transaction. Seconds of queued delivery (senders retry) buys a consistent snapshot. * The install hook checks outbound port 25 and reverse DNS, then prints the MX/SPF/DMARC records with real values. A mail server whose container started is not a working mail server, and every remaining requirement lives at the registrar or the VPS provider. Admin credentials are seeded via STALWART_RECOVERY_ADMIN from the app config rather than left to Stalwart's first-run random password, which would otherwise exist only in the container log. Icon is a drawn placeholder, not the upstream trademark. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LibrePortal
Your own private corner of the internet — free, open, and yours.
LibrePortal is a self-hosted platform for running the apps you rely on, on your own server: one-click installs, a reverse proxy with automatic SSL, rootless Docker, optional VPN routing, and a clean web dashboard to manage it all.
⚠️ v0.1.0 — early days. Expect rough edges while things settle.
Why LibrePortal
Too many services today treat your data as theirs to take — quietly overstepping boundaries that should never have been crossed. LibrePortal grew out of frustration with that: it's a way to run the apps you depend on on your own server, where your data stays yours. Privacy here isn't a feature to toggle — it's the whole point.
Free & open — forever
The entire platform is free software under the GNU AGPLv3. Self-host it and you get everything — every feature, no paywalls, no telemetry. See our Promise for exactly what that means.
What you get
- 📦 One-click self-hosted apps (Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Gitea, …)
- 🔀 Traefik reverse proxy + automatic Let's Encrypt SSL
- 🔒 Rootless Docker, CrowdSec, sane security defaults
- 🛡️ Optional VPN routing (gluetun) for any app
- 🖥️ A web dashboard to install, configure, back up, and monitor everything
Quick start
curl -fsSL https://get.libreportal.org/install.sh | sudo bash
This installs a versioned, checksum-verified release (Debian/Ubuntu, root). Put
data on separate disks with --system-dir= / --containers-dir= / --backups-dir=.
The
get.libreportal.orghost is still being set up — until it's live, build a release and install from it locally (see the docs below).
Documentation
- docs/guide/install-and-use.md — install, place data on separate disks/drives, update, back up, uninstall.
- docs/contributing/development.md — run a dev copy, cut stable/edge releases, and test them before publishing.
LibrePortal Connect (optional)
Self-hosting is free and complete. If you'd rather not fiddle with the tricky parts — like reaching your server from your phone, or keeping off-site backups — LibrePortal Connect will handle them for you. Here's the catch that makes us different: we work like a courier carrying a sealed box. We move your data between your devices and store backup copies, but it stays locked and you hold the only key — we can't open it, and we never run your apps for you. Everything we offer, you can also set up yourself for free. Our Promise spells out exactly where that line sits.
Contributing
PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. We use a lightweight
DCO sign-off (git commit -s), no CLA.
Acknowledgments
LibrePortal has been built from scratch since 2023. Its spark of inspiration
was a small installer script from Brian McGonagill (OpenSourceIsAwesome):
gitlab.com/bmcgonag/docker_installs.
From that seed it grew start to finish — refined, extended, and refactored
into the platform it is today.
License
GNU AGPLv3. What's open stays open.