Installing KumoMTA in a Docker container

Our CI builds the latest version of our image and publishes it to the GitHub Container registry.

You'll need a policy script in order to start kumo.

Create a file named init.lua with these contents:

local kumo = require 'kumo'
-- This config acts as a sink that will discard all received mail

kumo.on('init', function()
  -- Listen on port 25
  kumo.start_esmtp_listener {
    listen = '0:25',
    -- allow all clients to send mail
    relay_hosts = { '0.0.0.0/0' },
  }

  -- Define the default "data" spool location.
  -- This is unused by this config, but we are required to
  -- define a default spool location.
  kumo.define_spool {
    name = 'data',
    path = '/tmp/kumo-sink/data',
  }

  -- Define the default "meta" spool location.
  -- This is unused by this config, but we are required to
  -- define a default spool location.
  kumo.define_spool {
    name = 'meta',
    path = '/tmp/kumo-sink/meta',
  }
end)

kumo.on('smtp_server_message_received', function(msg)
  -- Accept and discard all messages
  msg:set_meta('queue', 'null')
end)

When we launch the image, we want to mount our init.lua file into the image and tell it to use it. The default location for this is /opt/kumomta/etc/policy:

$ sudo docker run --rm -p 2025:25 \
    -v .:/opt/kumomta/etc/policy \
    --name kumo-sink \
    ghcr.io/kumocorp/kumomta-dev:latest

Building your own KumoMTA container image

You need git to clone the repo:

RPM based systemsAPT based systems

$ sudo dnf install -y git

$ sudo apt install -y git

Then clone the repo and run the image builder script:

$ git clone https://github.com/KumoCorp/kumomta.git
$ cd kumomta
$ sudo ./docker/kumod/build-docker-image.sh

This should result in something roughly like this:

$ docker image ls kumomta/kumod
REPOSITORY      TAG       IMAGE ID       CREATED         SIZE
kumomta/kumod   latest    bbced15ff4d1   3 minutes ago   116MB

You can then run that image in the same way as shown in the previous section.

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Last update: 2023-09-17
Created: 2023-03-13