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mobile boxes, the installer, and the home switch fabric reference
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# mail
A Debian VM running [mailcow](https://mailcow.email/) (`mail.nul.ie`) — the
mail server for `nul.ie`. Declared in `colony`'s `my.vms.instances` but **not
a NixOS system**: everything inside the VM is configured out of band.
- **Source (host-side only):** the `mail` instance in
[`nixos/boxes/colony/vms/default.nix`](../../../nixos/boxes/colony/vms/default.nix)
and the `90-vm-mail` network in
[`nixos/boxes/colony/default.nix`](../../../nixos/boxes/colony/default.nix)
- **Host:** VM on `colony`
## Role
- Runs the full mailcow stack (Postfix/Dovecot/SOGo/Rspamd) for `nul.ie`.
Other colony services send through it as `mail.nul.ie` (e.g. Gitea, and the
disabled Mastodon config).
- 3 cores, 6 GiB RAM; `root` and `data` LVM disks (the `vm-mail-data` LV is
included in `colony`'s `borgthin` backups).
## Networking
- Attaches to a dedicated, unbridged TAP (`vm-mail`, MAC
`52:54:00:a8:d1:03`). `colony` puts the point-to-point address
(`custRouting.mail-vm`) on the host side, link-routes the public /32
`94.142.241.227` down the tap, and serves the IPv6 /64
`2a0e:97c0:4d2:2000::/64` with RAs.
- DNS: `mail-vm.ams1.int.nul.ie` (and `mail.nul.ie` publicly, incl. the PTR in
estuary's reverse zone). `estuary` accepts traffic to the customer prefixes
without per-port filtering; `colony` forwards it on ("trust for now").
## Notes
- ACME certificates are issued on `middleman` and pushed to the VM over SSH
(`acme@mail.nul.ie mailcow-ssl-reload`, key `middleman/mailcow-ssh.key`);
the VM's SSH host key is pinned at `.keys/mail-vm-host.pub`.