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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to Stalwart

  • Overview of Stalwart and its design philosophy
  • Architecture of the single Rust binary
  • Comparison against traditional mail stacks
  • Licensing models: AGPL-3.0 and Enterprise

Installation and Initial Setup

  • System requirements and supported platforms
  • Deployment using Docker and Docker Compose
  • Installing on Linux via binary distribution
  • Selecting appropriate database backends
  • Utilizing bootstrap mode and the setup wizard

Core Protocols and DNS

  • Configuring SMTP for both inbound and outbound traffic
  • Implementing IMAP4 and JMAP for mail access
  • Supporting POP3 for legacy client compatibility
  • Setting up DNS records: MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC
  • Automating DKIM key rotation processes

Security and Authentication

  • Implementing TLS with ACME certificate provisioning
  • Securing transport with DANE and MTA-STS
  • Configuring authentication backends: internal, LDAP, OIDC, SQL
  • Enabling OAuth 2.0 and two-factor authentication
  • Defining access control lists and permissions
  • Applying rate limiting and automated IP blocking

Spam and Phishing Protection

  • Examining the built-in spam filter architecture
  • Utilizing AI and LLM-driven classification methods
  • Implementing statistical Bayesian classifiers
  • Integrating DNS blocklists and Pyzor
  • Deploying greylisting and spam traps
  • Protecting against phishing and homographic attacks

Storage and Search Backends

  • Choosing storage options: RocksDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite
  • Integrating cloud blob storage with S3 and Azure
  • Optimizing performance with Redis caching
  • Configuring full-text search: built-in vs external engines

Collaboration Services

  • Managing CalDAV and JMAP Calendars
  • Handling CardDAV and JMAP Contacts
  • Implementing WebDAV file storage
  • Sharing resources using ACLs and JMAP Sharing

Multi-Tenancy and User Management

  • Ensuring domain and tenant isolation
  • Managing user accounts and groups
  • Configuring mailing lists and aliases
  • Setting up subaddressing and catch-all addresses
  • Applying disk quotas per user and tenant

Administration and Monitoring

  • Utilizing the WebUI dashboard and statistics tools
  • Using the CLI for scripting and automation tasks
  • Managing the SMTP queue effectively
  • Collecting metrics via OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
  • Automating events using Webhooks

Clustering and High Availability

  • Implementing peer-to-peer cluster coordination
  • Building clusters with Kafka and Redis
  • Utilizing read replicas and sharded storage
  • Deploying on Kubernetes
  • Designing for fault tolerance

Advanced Configuration

  • Writing scripts using the Sieve language
  • Integrating MTA hooks and milters
  • Configuring routing rules and virtual queues
  • Performing envelope rewriting

Migration and Integration

  • Migrating from Postfix and Dovecot environments
  • Migrating from Microsoft Exchange
  • Implementing Autoconfig and Autodiscover
  • Managing DNS records automatically
  • Executing API-driven declarative deployments

Requirements

  • Proficiency with the Linux command line
  • A foundational understanding of DNS concepts
  • Knowledge of email fundamentals is beneficial but not mandatory

Target Audience

  • System administrators
  • DevOps and platform engineers
  • IT infrastructure specialists
  • Professionals managing or planning self-hosted email deployments

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