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📚 Documentation for the Postal mail server!
https://docs.postalserver.io
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docker-compose not documented #18

Closed Utopiah closed 2 years ago

Utopiah commented 2 years ago

The installation page mentions "In addition to Docker, you'll also need docker-compose." yet examples feature individual docker run commands. There is no complete installation example so I'm not sure I understand what is going on here. When I usually setup a service via containers I don't expect anything to be installed on the host. Is the postal command a wrapper for docker/podman to manage its containers? Is there a way to do it the "usual" way, namely 1 yml file for all services then start/stop it via docker-compose?

willpower232 commented 2 years ago

The postal command relies on docker-compose and you can see in the installation repository that there is a docker-compose.yml file to manage the main processes.

As part of using Postal, you should run a proxy like nginx or caddy and since you already have docker running, it makes sense to also run the proxy in docker so there is a layer of separation.

If you want to add your proxy to the main docker-compose file then sure but it could make things complicated down the line.