- The hardcoded root@relaydomain address was unusued/unrooted and no one knew about it, it was used nowhere. Better to use privacy_mail which operators can set which might eventually be shown in the UI's relay list. - remove generic useless mail_server_comment string. Clients receive these values as IMAP METADATA /shared/admin and /shared/comment only for internal debugging/info purposes.
Chatmail relays for end-to-end encrypted email
Chatmail relay servers are interoperable Mail Transport Agents (MTAs) designed for:
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Zero State: no private data or metadata collected, messages are auto-deleted, low disk usage
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Instant/Realtime: sub-second message delivery, realtime P2P streaming, privacy-preserving Push Notifications for Apple, Google, and Huawei;
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Security Enforcement: Only connections with strict TLS are accepted; all messages must be correctly signed with DKIM and OpenPGP-encrypted with minimized metadata. There are experimental exceptions for no-DNS relays, which are allowed use self-signed TLS certificates and which do not need to DKIM-sign their messages. Unencrypted messages are allowed in neither case.
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Reliable Federation and Decentralization: No spam or IP reputation checks, federating depends on established IETF standards and protocols.
This repository contains everything needed to setup a ready-to-use chatmail relay on an ssh-reachable host. For getting started and more information please refer to the web version of this repositories' documentation at