Postmoogle is an actual SMTP server that allows you to send and receive emails on your matrix server.
It can't be used with arbitrary email providers, because it acts as an actual email provider itself,
so you can use it to send emails from your apps and scripts as well.
Roadmap
Receive
SMTP server (plaintext and SSL)
live reload of SSL certs
Matrix bot
Configuration in room's account data
Receive emails to matrix rooms
Receive attachments
Subaddressing support
Mailbox aliases support
Catch-all mailbox
Strip forwarding, signatures, and other noise from emails if configured
Map email threads to matrix threads
Multi-domain support
SMTP verification
DKIM verification
SPF verification
RBL verification
MX verification
Spamlist of emails (wildcards supported)
Spamlist of hosts (per server only)
Greylisting (per server only)
Send
SMTP client
SMTP server (you can use Postmoogle as general purpose SMTP server to send emails from your scripts or apps)
SMTP Relaying (postmoogle can send emails via relay host), global and per-mailbox
Send a message to matrix room with special format to send a new email, even to multiple email addresses at once
Reply to matrix thread sends reply into email thread
Email signatures
Email autoreply / autoresponder for new email threads
POSTMOOGLE_LOGIN - user login, localpart when logging in with password (e.g., moogle), OR full MXID when using shared secret (e.g., @moogle:example.com)
POSTMOOGLE_PASSWORD - user password, alternatively you may use shared secret
POSTMOOGLE_SHAREDSECRET - alternative to password, shared secret (details)
POSTMOOGLE_DOMAINS - space separated list of SMTP domains to listen for new emails. The first domain acts as the default domain, all other as aliases
other optional config parameters
POSTMOOGLE_PORT - SMTP port to listen for new emails
POSTMOOGLE_PROXIES - space separated list of IP addresses considered as trusted proxies, thus never banned
POSTMOOGLE_TLS_PORT - secure SMTP port to listen for new emails. Requires valid cert and key as well
POSTMOOGLE_TLS_CERT - space separated list of paths to the SSL certificates (chain) of your domains, note that position in the cert list must match the position of the cert's key in the key list
POSTMOOGLE_TLS_KEY - space separated list of paths to the SSL certificates' private keys of your domains, note that position on the key list must match the position of cert in the cert list
POSTMOOGLE_TLS_REQUIRED - require TLS connection, even on the non-TLS port (POSTMOOGLE_PORT). TLS connections are always required on the TLS port (POSTMOOGLE_TLS_PORT) regardless of this setting.
POSTMOOGLE_DATA_SECRET - secure key (password) to encrypt account data, must be 16, 24, or 32 bytes long
POSTMOOGLE_STATUSMSG - presence status message
POSTMOOGLE_MONITORING_SENTRY_DSN - sentry DSN
POSTMOOGLE_MONITORING_SENTRY_RATE - sentry sample rate, from 0 to 100 (default: 20)
Invite the bot into a room you want to use as mailbox
Read the bot's introduction
Set mailbox using !pm mailbox NAME where NAME is part of email (e.g. NAME@example.com)
Done. Mailbox owner and other options will be set automatically when you configure mailbox.
If you want to change them - check available options in the help message (!pm help)
Full list of available commands
The following section is visible to all allowed users
!pm help - Show this help message
!pm stop - Disable bridge for the room and clear all configuration
!pm send - Send email
mailbox ownership
The following section is visible to the mailbox owners only
!pm mailbox - Get or set mailbox of the room
!pm aliases - Get or set comma-separated aliases of the room
!pm domain - Get or set default domain of the room
!pm owner - Get or set owner of the room
!pm password - Get or set SMTP password of the room's mailbox
!pm relay - Get or set SMTP relay of that mailbox. Format: smtp://user:password@host:port, e.g. smtp://54b7bfb9-b95f-44b8-9879-9b560baf4e3a:8528a3a9-bea8-4583-9912-d4357ba565eb@example.com:587
mailbox options
The following section is visible to the mailbox owners only
!pm autoreply - Get or set autoreply of the room (markdown supported) that will be sent on any new incoming email thread
!pm signature - Get or set signature of the room (markdown supported)
!pm threadify - Get or set threadify of the room (true - send incoming email body in thread; false - send incoming email body as part of the message)
!pm stripify - Get or set threadify of the room (true - strip incoming email's reply quotes and signatures; false - send incoming email as-is)
!pm nosend - Get or set nosend of the room (true - disable email sending; false - enable email sending)
!pm noreplies - Get or set noreplies of the room (true - ignore matrix replies; false - parse matrix replies)
!pm nosender - Get or set nosender of the room (true - hide email sender; false - show email sender)
!pm norecipient - Get or set norecipient of the room (true - hide recipient; false - show recipient)
!pm nocc - Get or set nocc of the room (true - hide CC; false - show CC)
!pm nosubject - Get or set nosubject of the room (true - hide email subject; false - show email subject)
!pm nohtml - Get or set nohtml of the room (true - ignore HTML in email; false - parse HTML in emails)
!pm nothreads - Get or set nothreads of the room (true - ignore email threads; false - convert email threads into matrix threads)
!pm nofiles - Get or set nofiles of the room (true - ignore email attachments; false - upload email attachments)
!pm noinlines - Get or set noinlines of the room (true - ignore inline attachments; false - upload inline attachments)
mailbox security checks
The following section is visible to the mailbox owners only
!pm spamcheck:mx - only accept email from servers which seem prepared to receive it (those having valid MX records) (true - enable, false - disable)
!pm spamcheck:spf - only accept email from senders which authorized to send it (those matching SPF records) (true - enable, false - disable)
!pm spamcheck:rbl - reject incoming emails from hosts listed in DNS blocklists (true - enable, false - disable)
!pm spamcheck:dkim - only accept correctly authorized emails (without DKIM signature at all or with valid DKIM signature) (true - enable, false - disable)
!pm spamcheck:smtp - only accept email from servers which seem prepared to receive it (those listening on an SMTP port) (true - enable, false - disable)
mailbox anti-spam
The following section is visible to the mailbox owners only
!pm spam:list - Show comma-separated spamlist of the room, eg: spammer@example.com,*@spammer.org,spam@*
!pm spam:add - Mark an email address (or pattern) as spam (or you can react to the email with emoji: ⛔️,🛑, or 🚫)
!pm spam:remove - Unmark an email address (or pattern) as spam
!pm spam:reset - Reset spamlist
server options
The following section is visible to the bridge admins only
!pm adminroom - Get or set admin room
!pm users - Get or set allowed users
!pm dkim - Get DKIM signature
!pm catch-all - Get or set catch-all mailbox
!pm queue:batch - max amount of emails to process on each queue check
!pm queue:retries - max amount of tries per email in queue before removal
!pm mailboxes - Show the list of all mailboxes
!pm delete - Delete specific mailbox
server antispam
The following section is visible to the bridge admins only
!pm greylist - Set automatic greylisting duration in minutes (0 - disabled)
!pm banlist - Enable/disable banlist and show current values
!pm banlist:auth - Enable/disable automatic banning for invalid auth credentials
!pm banlist:auto - Enable/disable automatic banning for invalid emails