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Bulwark Webmail is a self-hosted webmail client for Stalwart Mail Server. It talks to Stalwart over JMAP and puts mail, calendar, contacts and files behind one login, with one set of settings and one admin dashboard.

Contents

• Screenshots
• Features
• Quick start
• Other ways to install
• Configuration
• Documentation
• Development
• Community and support
• License

Screenshots

_{Calendar week view  ·  Contact details with recent mail and upcoming events}

_{Composer with identities and formatting  ·  Light and dark themes}

Features

• Mail: threading, unified inbox, cross-account views, full-text search, Sieve filters, S/MIME, templates, scheduled send
• Calendar: month, week, day and agenda views, recurring events, iMIP invitations, CalDAV subscriptions
• Contacts: several address books, groups, vCard import and export
• Files: Stalwart's JMAP file storage, with previews, sharing and folder upload

All four share single sign-on and 2FA, multiple accounts, 27 languages, PWA install and web push, themes, plugins and keyboard shortcuts. The full list is on the All features page.

There are two editions. The full edition runs as a Node.js server and adds the admin dashboard, OAuth, plugins and settings sync. Bulwark Lite is the same client as static files, served by any web host or by Stalwart itself.

Quick start

docker run -d -p 3000:3000 ghcr.io/bulwarkmail/webmail:latest

Then open http://localhost:3000. A setup wizard asks for your Stalwart server and an admin password. The installation guide has the details, and Stalwart setup covers the mail server side.

Other ways to install

Method	Guide
Docker Compose	Compose
Behind a reverse proxy or on a sub-path	Reverse proxy
From source, without Docker	Manual install
Lite on any static host	Static hosting
Lite as a container	Container image
Lite served by Stalwart	Install on Stalwart

Updating explains how to move to a new version.

Configuration

Most installs are set up in the wizard on first launch and changed later in the admin dashboard. You can also use environment variables, which fit read-only or immutable deployments better. When both set the same key, the value saved in the admin config wins, so an environment variable only fills in what the admin config leaves unset.

JMAP_SERVER_URL=https://mail.example.com
APP_NAME=My Webmail

Topic	Guide
Overview, config files and precedence	Configuration
Every variable	Environment reference
OAuth2 / OIDC and single sign-on	Authentication, Embedded SSO
Several JMAP servers, custom endpoints	Multi-server deployments, Custom endpoints
Branding, logos, per-domain branding	Customization
Anonymous telemetry (off by default)	Anonymous usage stats

Documentation

All documentation is at bulwarkmail.org/docs:

• Getting started: Introduction, Installation, Editions, Bulwark Lite, Demo mode
• Deployment: Docker, Manual install, Static hosting, Install on Stalwart, Updating
• Guides: Admin dashboard, Account security, Impersonation, Plugins, Marketplace, Troubleshooting
• Extensions: Introduction, manifest.json, Publishing
• Development: Architecture, Contributing
• Legal: Privacy

The pages are Markdown files in the website repository. Send corrections there.

Development

git clone https://github.com/bulwarkmail/webmail.git
cd webmail
npm install
cp .env.dev.example .env.local   # built-in mock JMAP server, no mail server needed
npm run dev

npm run typecheck
npm run lint
npx vitest run             # unit tests
npm run test:integration   # Stalwart in Docker + Playwright

The contributing guide covers tests, translations, code style and pull requests. Architecture explains how the code is organized.

The stack: Next.js 16 and React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS v4, Zustand, Tiptap, next-intl, Tabler Icons, and our own JMAP client (RFC 8620). Tests run on Vitest and Playwright.

Community and support

• Questions: check Troubleshooting, then ask on Discord.
• Bugs and feature requests: open a GitHub issue.
• Security vulnerabilities: report them privately to dev@bulwarkmail.org or through a security advisory, never in a public issue.
• Release notes: CHANGELOG.md and the GitHub releases.

License

GNU AGPL v3. This repository preserves the original MIT attribution for the fork lineage in NOTICE.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to root-fr/jmap-webmail and @ma2t for the groundwork this project builds upon.