Security Policies and Procedures

This document outlines security procedures and general policies for the mailcow: dockerized project as found on mailcow-dockerized.

Reporting a Vulnerability

The mailcow team and community take all security vulnerabilities seriously. Thank you for improving the security of our open source software. We appreciate your efforts and responsible disclosure and will make every effort to acknowledge your contributions.

Report security vulnerabilities by emailing the mailcow team at:

info at servercow.de

mailcow team will acknowledge your email as soon as possible, and will send a more detailed response afterwards indicating the next steps in handling your report. After the initial reply to your report, the mailcow team will endeavor to keep you informed of the progress towards a fix and full announcement, and may ask for additional information or guidance.

Report security vulnerabilities in third-party modules to the person or team maintaining the module.

Disclosure Policy

When the mailcow team receives a security bug report, they will assign it to a primary handler. This person will coordinate the fix and release process, involving the following steps:

  • Confirm the problem and determine the affected versions.
  • Audit code to find any potential similar problems.
  • Prepare fixes for all releases still under maintenance.

Comments on this Policy

If you have suggestions on how this process could be improved please submit a pull request.