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Secure email,
built to be owned.

OPENBSD SECURE MAIL PLATFORM

Email is the backbone of every organization. This platform combines a hardened OpenBSD mail stack with OSMAP, secure browser access, strong identity controls, filtering, monitoring, backup and recovery.

Approved OSMAP mailbox UX direction with folders, recent messages and account security status

WHY THIS PLATFORM

A complete mail system, engineered as one security boundary.

OPENBSD FOUNDATION

PF, WireGuard, Unbound, TLS and a hardened host.

LEAST-PRIVILEGE ACCESS

Rust webmail, server-rendered, no runtime JavaScript.

MAIL SECURITY PIPELINE

Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, ClamAV and standards-based mail.

OPERATIONS BUILT IN

Monitoring, staged updates, backup, recovery and verification.

THE USER EXPERIENCE

Security people can see. Mail people can use.

OSMAP turns hardening into an understandable product experience: mail, composition, search, documents, identity, privacy, security state, key management and account recovery.

Approved UX direction: Mailbox and productivity

MAILBOX & PRODUCTIVITY

Inbox, search, drafts, documents and clear operational state.

Approved UX direction: Composition and delivery preflight

COMPOSE & DELIVERY

Identity-aware composition with policy-driven security preflight.

Approved UX direction: Identity and OpenPGP key management

IDENTITY & KEY MANAGEMENT

Key status, trust readiness, fingerprints and governed account actions.

Approved UX direction; runtime OpenPGP operations are not yet implemented.

DEFENSE IN DEPTH

Security from the browser to the wire.

The web interface never becomes the mail authority. Public access terminates at nginx; mailbox authority, transport, filtering and operations remain separated behind explicit boundaries.

  1. Browser
  2. nginx / PF
  3. OSMAP
  4. Mailbox helper
  5. Dovecot / Postfix
  6. Rspamd / AV
  7. Ops / DR

BUILT FOR REAL OPERATIONS

More than webmail. A maintainable security platform.

AUTHENTICATION & SESSIONS

Password + TOTP, bounded sessions, revocation and recovery workflows.

SAFE MESSAGE RENDERING

Server-rendered UI, sanitization, remote-content blocking and bounded parsing.

MAILFLOW & FILTERING

SMTP, IMAP/LMTP, Rspamd, ClamAV, Redis and policy-controlled delivery.

MONITORING & HARDENING

PF, optional Suricata, health reporting, alerts, SBOM and patch governance.

BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY

Staged restores, configuration verification and repeatable recovery procedures.

REPRODUCIBLE DEPLOYMENT

Phased apply/verify workflow, QEMU validation and OpenBSD autoinstall support.

OPEN BY DESIGN

Open where it should be.
Private where it must be.

The reusable platform is auditable and reproducible. Site-specific credentials, keys, telemetry and recovery material remain outside public source control.

OSMAP

Public application

Rust, server-rendered UX and security-focused browser access.

PRIVATE OPERATIONS

Organization-owned state

Secrets, keys, live telemetry, provider state and site-specific controls.

SECURE EMAIL, WITHOUT THE SAAS DEPENDENCY

Own the infrastructure. Keep the standards.
Reduce the attack surface.

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