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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
• Use of AI
• 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

Updating explains how to move to a new version.

Container images and release files from 1.12.0 on come with a signed build provenance attestation. To check that one was built by this repository's workflows, run gh attestation verify oci://ghcr.io/bulwarkmail/webmail:<version> --owner bulwarkmail for an image, or gh attestation verify <file> --repo bulwarkmail/webmail for a downloaded file. Release files also have a .sha256 next to them.

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

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.

Use of AI

AI tools are part of how Bulwark is developed. A change is held to the same standard whether a person or a tool wrote it: it has to be understood, reviewed and pass the checks and tests before it is merged.

Bulwark itself has no AI features and doesn't send your mail, contacts, calendar or files to an AI service. If your Stalwart server classifies spam with an LLM, Bulwark shows the verdict, but the classification happens on your server.

Contributors can use AI tools too, as long as they use capable, current models and not small or outdated ones. The contributing guide explains what we expect.

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 only, with an additional permission to distribute apps built from this code through app stores such as the Apple App Store and Google Play. The permission is provisional until every earlier contributor has agreed to it (consent request); contributions made since 30 September 2026 are already covered. 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.