88e9631b68
A mail server is two quite different products wearing one name, and until
now LibrePortal only offered the hard one. Installing Stalwart meant being
handed a wall of DNS records, a red error about port 25 and a warning about
reverse DNS — all of it correct, none of it fixable by the installer, and
most of it irrelevant to someone who wanted mailboxes and a shared calendar
on their own network.
CFG_STALWART_MODE now names which one you are running:
private mailboxes, IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV on your own network. Port 25
is not published at all; the client ports stay bound to the host
but are never opened through the firewall. No MX, no PTR, no
deliverability. Nothing to publish, so nothing is printed.
public the internet mail server, as before.
auto public if Traefik is installed, private if not, resolved at
install and written back so it reads as a real answer afterwards.
DKIM keys are generated in both modes even though private has no use for
them today — that is what makes switching later a setting change rather
than a key ceremony. The WebUI gets a "Mail Exposure" tool that flips the
setting both ways and reconfigures the server, plus a "Show DNS Records"
tool that prints the live zone including current DKIM keys.
Two things this had to get right, both found by testing rather than
reading. Port access lives in the shell as CFG_<APP>_PORT_n, not just in
the config file, and the compose file is built from the parsed shell
values — editing only the file left the config claiming port 25 was
disabled while the container published it anyway. And going public needs
an AcmeProvider to exist before a domain can reference one, so the switch
creates it; note that doing so registers an account with Let's Encrypt.
Verified through real installs: auto resolves to private with no Traefik,
port 25 is genuinely unpublished and absent from the compose file, the
client ports are skipped by the firewall as host-bound, and the tool
round-trips private -> public -> private with the config landing back
exactly where it started.
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.