Email Server about caddy

[mholt]

I don't think email is in Caddy's future, but that sounds like an excellent experiment for a separate project. smtpd might be a decent starting point.

And yeah, I hate setting up email servers too.

[lenovouser]

It would be nice if Caddy could proxy a mail server backend though.

[mholt]

@Apfeluser Thanks for the feedback. Caddy is a web server, so I don't intend to support mail (SMTP) anytime soon. What did you have in mind, specifically (just curious)?

[lenovouser]

@mholt NGINX for example has an option to "proxy" an e-mail server. So it opens the standard ports for an e-mail server (25, 143, 995 ...) and is then proxying the requests to an backend of e-mail servers. Kind of like proxying a NodeJS app.

http://wiki.nginx.org/ImapProxyExample
http://www.whatastruggle.com/nginx-as-an-imappop3-proxy

But this is not a "perfect" implementation. I think it would be a killer-feature if Caddy would have a clean implementation of proxying e.g. to Dovecot and Postfix.

[mholt]

Noted; thanks for the expansion. We will see if Caddy's scope evolves over time.

[DenBeke]

It would be really great if Caddy can be used to handle emails. It would remove the need for a separate email server as setting up a email server is a royal PITA.

What part of a mail service do you want to setup, @Immortalin ? Because you need more than a simple MTA, you must also need IMAP (with user/mailbox management), and some decent spam (and spf) handling. I think this is way out of Caddy's scope.

[mholt]

Yeah we're not gonna do email. 😛 Maybe a mail proxying middleware, might make a good add-on.

But I will keep my eye on @DenBeke's project: https://github.com/gopistolet/gopistolet

[Immortalin]

@DenBeke just MTA + IMAP. Anything else can be dealt with by the client.