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Email Management

Hypha members are eligible for Hypha email addresses, such as joe@hypha.earth. Hypha does not provide full email support, so we suggest to forward messages from your Hypha account to your personal email account (e.g. at Gmail). as soon as you have access. 

Introduction

Cloudron has a built-in mail server that can send and receive email on behalf of users and applications. By default, most of it's functionality is disabled and it only sends out mails on behalf of apps (for example, password reset and notification emails). Hypha has enabled Cloudron Email and offers offers a full-flegedfledged mail server solution. Each user getscan get a mailbox mailbox username@domainusername@hypha.earth  and can send mails using SMTP and receive mails using IMAP. UsersAdmins can also setup server side mail filtering rules using ManageSieve.

Features of this mail solution include:

  • Multi-domain support
  • Enable mailboxes for users and groups on a domain level
  • Per-user and group mail aliases
  • Mailbox sharing amongst users
  • Group email addresses that forward email to it's members
  • Email account sub-addressing by adding + tag qualifier
  • Setup mail filters and vacation email using ManageSieve
  • Catch all mailbox to receive mail sent to a non-existent mailbox
  • Relay all outbound mails via SendGrid, Postmark, Mailgun, AWS SES or a Smart host
  • Anti-spam. Users can train the spam filter by marking mails as spam. Built-in rDNS and zen spamhaus lookup. Admins can add custom spam rules for the entire server.
  • Completely automated DNS setup. MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC are setup automatically
  • Let's Encrypt integration for mail endpoints
  • Domains and IP addresses blacklisting
  • Server-side mail signatures (can be set per domain)
  • REST API to add users and groups
  • Secure out of the box
  • Full text search using Solr
  • Event Log

Hypha's email configuration

Component Configuration Access
Webhost (.com)

Bluehost for joinseeds.com

Unknown

Webhost (.earth)Namecheap for joinseeds.earth and hypha.earth

Unknown

Locker
Mailserver Cloudron  
Mailboxes https://my.hypha.earth/#/emailHypha Mailboxes Cloudron admins
Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server: mail.hypha.earth
Port: 993 (TLS)		 Cloudron admins
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server: mail.hypha.earth
Port: 587 (STARTTLS)		 Cloudron admins
ManageSieveEmail filtering

ManageSieve

Server: mail.hypha.earth
Port: 4190 (STARTTLS)

 Cloudron admins
Docs
Email delivery

Postmark

smtp.postmarkapp.com

Port: 587 (STARTTLS)

 Locker
Email clients Sogo Cloudron users
DNS Status

MX record
Hostname: @

Record type: MX

Expected value: 10 mail.hypha.earth.

Current value: 10 mail.hypha.earth.

 

DMARC record
Hostname: _dmarc

Record type: TXT

Expected value: v=DMARC1; p=reject; pct=100

Current value: v=DMARC1; p=reject; pct=100

Namecheap requires manual steps for MX records

 
SMTP Status

OK

 

How to maintain mail server status

We currently have MX and DMARC records enabled. We want to enable SPF, DKIM and PTR as well.

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source: https://docs.cloudron.io/email/#mail-server-status 

How to create an email account

 Todo

  • clear mail on all existing Hypha mailboxes
  • role/process to add new mailboxes

How to set up a Locker account

 see here

Current Maintainers of Email

  • Joachim Stroh @joachimstroh on Discord

Frequently Asked Questions

 

More documentation

 

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