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A new Stalwart drops you into a five-screen wizard — hostname, domain, storage backend, directory, logging, DNS — before it will do anything. LibrePortal already knows the two answers that matter and the rest have sane defaults, so asking is asking a question we can answer ourselves. v0.16 exposes those wizard fields as a `Bootstrap` singleton, so the whole thing is one `update` applied through the Stalwart CLI. The CLI is not in the server image (upstream split it into its own repo), but it publishes a multi-arch container, so we borrow the server's network namespace and run it there — nothing installed on the host, nothing to clean up, arm64 works. Setup now also: - generates DKIM keys (Ed25519 + RSA) with rotation left switched on, and requests a TLS certificate. That last one is easy to miss: Traefik only fronts the admin port, so 25/465/587/993 never see its certificate and clients would hit a self-signed one on 993. - creates postmaster@<domain>. The generated zone points DMARC and TLS-RPT reports there and nothing was creating it, so those reports bounced. - prints the record set read back from the server rather than composed here, so it includes the real DKIM public keys, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT and the SRV records clients autoconfigure from. This hook used to tell the user to go and fetch DKIM themselves; by that point the keys exist. Optionally hands DNS to a provider API (Cloudflare/DigitalOcean/DeSEC), which keeps the whole record set in sync and makes DKIM rotation safe to leave on. Off by default: the token can write to your zone and lives in the mail server's database. Re-running is safe — provisioning is skipped once config.json exists, and the plans use upsert so they reconcile rather than duplicate. 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.