boxwatchr

Overview

A self-hosted email filtering daemon that watches your IMAP mailbox, scores every incoming message with a spam engine, runs it through your custom rules, and takes action automatically. No cloud, no subscriptions, just your server doing exactly what you tell it to.

Runtime arguments

Web UI: http://[IP]:[PORT:8143]
Network: bridge
Shell: bash
Privileged: false
Extra Params: --restart unless-stopped

Template configuration

Config PathPathrw

The directory to store your boxwatchr configuration files.

Target: /app/config
Default: /mnt/user/appdata/boxwatchr/config
Value: /mnt/user/appdata/boxwatchr/config

Data PathPathrw

The directory to store your boxwatchr data persistence.

Target: /app/data
Default: /mnt/user/appdata/boxwatchr/data
Value: /mnt/user/appdata/boxwatchr/data

Web Interface PortPorttcp

Internal port the web dashboard listens on.

Target: 8143
Default: 8143
Value: 8143

PUIDVariable

User ID to run as inside the container. Match this to your host user to avoid permission issues on mounted volumes. Run id on your server to find your value.

Default: 99
Value: 99

PGIDVariable

Group ID to run as inside the container.

Default: 100
Value: 100

TZVariable

Timezone used for log timestamps. Logs are stored in UTC and converted at display time, so you can change this at any time without affecting existing data.

Default: UTC
Value: America/Denver

rspamd Web Interface PasswordVariable

Password for the rspamd web interface on port 11334. A random password is generated at every startup if not set.

Target: RSPAMD_PASSWORD
Value: j$$8Dy4$@r#V$8564489

Reverse Proxy Secure CookiesVariable

Set to true if you are running boxwatchr behind an HTTPS reverse proxy. Marks the session cookie as Secure so it is only sent over encrypted connections. Leave unset for plain HTTP deployments.

Target: SECURE_COOKIES
Default: false
Value: true

Links

Template Support Registry Project

Details

Repository

ghcr.io/nulcraft/boxwatchr:latest

Registry

https://github.com/nulcraft/boxwatchr

Last Updated2026-04-10

First Seen2026-03-30

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