getinboxzero.com

[domtie]

"Automate your email with AI, bulk unsubscribe from newsletters, and block cold emails. Open-source."

Hi, getting a service for getinboxzero.com would be fantastic. Thanks :)

github: https://github.com/elie222/inbox-zero

[luisalrp]

I'm trying to deploy it. Here is the docker compose I'm using. It's not working yet, but it is close to do it:

name: inbox-zero-services
services:
  db:
    image: postgres
    restart: always
    container_name: inbox-zero
    environment:
      - 'POSTGRES_USER=${POSTGRES_USER:-postgres}'
      - 'POSTGRES_DB=${POSTGRES_DB:-inboxzero}'
      - 'POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-password}'
    volumes:
      - 'database-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data/'
    # ports:
    #  - '${POSTGRES_PORT:-5432}:5432'
    networks:
      - inbox-zero-network
    healthcheck:
      test: 'pg_isready -U ${PG_DATABASE_USER:-postgres} -h localhost -d postgres'
      interval: 5s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 10
  redis:
    image: redis
    # ports:
    #  - '${REDIS_PORT:-6380}:6379'
    volumes:
      - 'database-data:/data'
    networks:
      - inbox-zero-network
    healthcheck:
      test:
        - CMD
        - redis-cli
        - ping
      interval: 5s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 10
  serverless-redis-http:
    ports:
      - '${REDIS_HTTP_PORT:-8079}:80'
    image: 'hiett/serverless-redis-http:latest'
    environment:
      SRH_MODE: env
      SRH_TOKEN: '${UPSTASH_REDIS_TOKEN}'
      # SRH_CONNECTION_STRING: 'redis://redis:6379'
      SRH_CONNECTION_STRING: 'redis://redis:6380'
    networks:
      - inbox-zero-network
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "wget", "--spider", "-q", "http://127.0.0.1/"]
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 3
      start_period: 10s
  web:
    # image: 'ghcr.io/elie222/inbox-zero:latest'
    # pull_policy: if_not_present
    build:
      context: 'https://github.com/elie222/inbox-zero.git'
      dockerfile: docker/Dockerfile.prod
      args:
        NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_URL: '${NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_URL:-http://localhost:3000}'
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
    networks:
      - inbox-zero-network
    environment:
      DATABASE_URL: 'postgresql://${POSTGRES_USER:-postgres}:${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-password}@db:5432/${POSTGRES_DB:-inboxzero}?schema=public'
      DIRECT_URL: 'postgresql://${POSTGRES_USER:-postgres}:${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-password}@db:5432/${POSTGRES_DB:-inboxzero}?schema=public'
      UPSTASH_REDIS_URL: 'http://serverless-redis-http:80'
      UPSTASH_REDIS_TOKEN: '${UPSTASH_REDIS_TOKEN}'
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "wget", "--spider", "-q", "http://localhost:3000/"]
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 3
      start_period: 10s
volumes:
  database-data: null
networks:
  inbox-zero-network: null

I'm getting the following errors. Maybe someone knows how to avoid them:

Pulling images.
 serverless-redis-http Pulling 
 web Skipped - No image to be pulled 
 redis Pulling 
 db Pulling 
 db Pulled 
 serverless-redis-http Pulled 
 redis Pulled 
Creating Docker network.
Starting service.
#1 [internal] load local bake definitions
#1 reading from stdin 636B done
#1 DONE 0.0s

#2 [internal] load git source https://github.com/elie222/inbox-zero.git
#2 0.563 ref: refs/heads/main	HEAD
#2 0.563 cc4896b5c98c8a1d8a08e8f314ebc88c31460efa	HEAD
#2 1.027 cc4896b5c98c8a1d8a08e8f314ebc88c31460efa	refs/heads/main
#2 0.520 ref: refs/heads/main	HEAD
#2 0.520 cc4896b5c98c8a1d8a08e8f314ebc88c31460efa	HEAD
#2 1.316 fatal: No url found for submodule path 'apps/web/app/(marketing)' in .gitmodules
#2 ERROR: failed to update submodules for https://github.com/elie222/inbox-zero.git: git stderr:
fatal: No url found for submodule path 'apps/web/app/(marketing)' in .gitmodules
: exit status 128
------
 > [internal] load git source https://github.com/elie222/inbox-zero.git:
0.563 ref: refs/heads/main	HEAD
0.563 cc4896b5c98c8a1d8a08e8f314ebc88c31460efa	HEAD
1.027 cc4896b5c98c8a1d8a08e8f314ebc88c31460efa	refs/heads/main
0.520 ref: refs/heads/main	HEAD
0.520 cc4896b5c98c8a1d8a08e8f314ebc88c31460efa	HEAD
1.316 fatal: No url found for submodule path 'apps/web/app/(marketing)' in .gitmodules
------
failed to solve: failed to read dockerfile: failed to update submodules for https://github.com/elie222/inbox-zero.git: git stderr:

fatal: No url found for submodule path 'apps/web/app/(marketing)' in .gitmodules

: exit status 128

Thanks!

[djsisson]

if you look at clone-marketing.sh, there is a private repo, that is cloned to apps/web/app/(marketing), when a token is present, this means there is a ghost entry in the git index, so on initial pull docker will run git submodule but it fails, as the .gitmodules is excluded from the repo

you will likely need to use your own dockerfile or fork the repo to remove the ghost entry

[colinmollenhour]

I started on building this - to solve the issue of there not being a prebuilt image and the NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_URL being baked into the image I am using a custom entrypoint that uses sed to substitute it just before runtime and building it to my own registry for now:

elie222/inbox-zero@main...colinmollenhour:inbox-zero:main

Built image: https://github.com/colinmollenhour/inbox-zero/pkgs/container/inbox-zero

Here is my docker-compose.yml file so far:

# documentation: https://github.com/elie222/inbox-zero
# slogan: Open source email app to reach inbox zero fast
# tags: email,gmail,ai,productivity,inbox-management
# logo: svgs/inbox-zero.svg
# port: 3000

services:
  db:
    image: 'postgres:16-alpine'
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: '${SERVICE_USER_POSTGRES}'
      POSTGRES_DB: '${POSTGRES_DB:-${SERVICE_USER_POSTGRES}}'
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: '${SERVICE_PASSWORD_64_POSTGRES}'
    volumes:
      - 'postgres-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data'
    healthcheck:
      test:
        - CMD-SHELL
        - 'pg_isready -U ${SERVICE_USER_POSTGRES}'
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5
  redis:
    image: 'redis:7-alpine'
    volumes:
      - 'redis-data:/data'
    command: 'redis-server --appendonly yes'
    healthcheck:
      test:
        - CMD
        - redis-cli
        - ping
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5
  serverless-redis-http:
    image: 'hiett/serverless-redis-http:latest'
    depends_on:
      redis:
        condition: service_healthy
    environment:
      SRH_MODE: env
      SRH_TOKEN: '${SERVICE_PASSWORD_64_REDISTOKEN}'
      SRH_CONNECTION_STRING: 'redis://redis:6379'
  inboxzero:
    image: 'ghcr.io/elie222/inbox-zero:latest'
    depends_on:
      db:
        condition: service_healthy
      redis:
        condition: service_healthy
    healthcheck:
      test:
        - CMD
        - wget
        - '--quiet'
        - '--tries=1'
        - '--spider'
        - 'http://inboxzero:3000/'
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3
      start_period: 60s
    environment:
      DATABASE_URL: 'postgresql://${SERVICE_USER_POSTGRES}:${SERVICE_PASSWORD_64_POSTGRES}@db:5432/${POSTGRES_DB:-inboxzero}?schema=public'
      DIRECT_URL: 'postgresql://${SERVICE_USER_POSTGRES}:${SERVICE_PASSWORD_64_POSTGRES}@db:5432/${POSTGRES_DB:-inboxzero}?schema=public'
      NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_URL: '${SERVICE_URL_INBOXZERO}'
      NEXT_PUBLIC_BYPASS_PREMIUM_CHECKS: '${NEXT_PUBLIC_BYPASS_PREMIUM_CHECKS:-true}'
      NEXT_PUBLIC_EMAIL_SEND_ENABLED: '${NEXT_PUBLIC_EMAIL_SEND_ENABLED:-true}'
      AUTH_SECRET: '${SERVICE_PASSWORD_64_AUTHSECRET}'
      GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID: '${GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID:-}'
      GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET: '${GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET:-}'
      GOOGLE_PUBSUB_TOPIC_NAME: '${GOOGLE_PUBSUB_TOPIC_NAME:-}'
      GOOGLE_PUBSUB_VERIFICATION_TOKEN: '${SERVICE_PASSWORD_64_PUBSUBVERIFICATION}'
      MICROSOFT_CLIENT_ID: '${MICROSOFT_CLIENT_ID:-}'
      MICROSOFT_CLIENT_SECRET: '${MICROSOFT_CLIENT_SECRET:-}'
      MICROSOFT_WEBHOOK_CLIENT_STATE: '${SERVICE_PASSWORD_64_MICROSOFTWEBHOOK}'
      DEFAULT_LLM_PROVIDER: '${DEFAULT_LLM_PROVIDER:-anthropic}'
      DEFAULT_LLM_MODEL: '${DEFAULT_LLM_MODEL:-}'
      ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: '${ANTHROPIC_API_KEY:-}'
      OPENROUTER_API_KEY: '${OPENROUTER_API_KEY:-}'
      OPENAI_API_KEY: '${OPENAI_API_KEY:-}'
      GOOGLE_API_KEY: '${GOOGLE_API_KEY:-}'
      GROQ_API_KEY: '${GROQ_API_KEY:-}'
      BEDROCK_ACCESS_KEY: '${BEDROCK_ACCESS_KEY:-}'
      BEDROCK_SECRET_KEY: '${BEDROCK_SECRET_KEY:-}'
      BEDROCK_REGION: '${BEDROCK_REGION:-us-west-2}'
      OLLAMA_BASE_URL: '${OLLAMA_BASE_URL:-}'
      NEXT_PUBLIC_OLLAMA_MODEL: '${NEXT_PUBLIC_OLLAMA_MODEL:-}'
      ECONOMY_LLM_PROVIDER: '${ECONOMY_LLM_PROVIDER:-}'
      ECONOMY_LLM_MODEL: '${ECONOMY_LLM_MODEL:-}'
      INTERNAL_API_KEY: '${SERVICE_PASSWORD_64_INTERNALAPI}'
      INTERNAL_API_URL: '${INTERNAL_API_URL:-http://inboxzero:3000}'
      API_KEY_SALT: '${SERVICE_PASSWORD_64_APISALT}'
      UPSTASH_REDIS_URL: 'http://serverless-redis-http:80'
      UPSTASH_REDIS_TOKEN: '${SERVICE_PASSWORD_64_REDISTOKEN}'
      REDIS_URL: '${REDIS_URL:-}'
      QSTASH_TOKEN: '${QSTASH_TOKEN:-}'
      QSTASH_CURRENT_SIGNING_KEY: '${QSTASH_CURRENT_SIGNING_KEY:-}'
      QSTASH_NEXT_SIGNING_KEY: '${QSTASH_NEXT_SIGNING_KEY:-}'
      NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_HOME_PATH: '${NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_HOME_PATH:-/assistant}'
      LOG_ZOD_ERRORS: '${LOG_ZOD_ERRORS:-true}'
      CRON_SECRET: '${SERVICE_PASSWORD_64_CRON}'
      EMAIL_ENCRYPT_SECRET: '${SERVICE_PASSWORD_64_EMAILENCRYPT}'
      EMAIL_ENCRYPT_SALT: '${SERVICE_PASSWORD_EMAILSALT}'
      NODE_ENV: production
  cron:
    image: 'alpine:latest'
    configs:
      -
        source: cron_script
        target: /cron.sh
    command:
      - /bin/sh
      - '-c'
      - 'apk add --no-cache curl && chmod +x /cron.sh && /cron.sh'
    environment:
      CRON_SECRET: '${SERVICE_PASSWORD_64_CRON}'
      INTERNAL_API_URL: '${INTERNAL_API_URL:-http://inboxzero:3000}'
    depends_on:
      inboxzero:
        condition: service_healthy
volumes:
  postgres-data: null
  redis-data: null
configs:
  cron_script:
    content: |
      #!/bin/sh

      (
        while true; do
          echo "[cron] Processing scheduled actions..."
          /usr/bin/curl -s -X GET "$${INTERNAL_API_URL}/api/cron/scheduled-actions" -H "Authorization: Bearer $${CRON_SECRET}" || echo "[cron] Warning: scheduled-actions request failed"
          sleep 900
        done
      ) &
      (
        while true; do
          echo "[cron] Processing automation jobs..."
          /usr/bin/curl -s -X GET "$${INTERNAL_API_URL}/api/cron/automation-jobs" -H "Authorization: Bearer $${CRON_SECRET}" || echo "[cron] Warning: automation-jobs request failed"
          sleep 900
        done
      ) &
      (
        while true; do
          echo "[cron] Processing follow-up reminders..."
          /usr/bin/curl -s -X GET "$${INTERNAL_API_URL}/api/follow-up-reminders" -H "Authorization: Bearer $${CRON_SECRET}" || echo "[cron] Warning: follow-up-reminders request failed"
          sleep 3600
        done
      ) &
      (
        while true; do
          echo "[cron] Processing digest emails..."
          /usr/bin/curl -s -X GET "$${INTERNAL_API_URL}/api/resend/digest/all" -H "Authorization: Bearer $${CRON_SECRET}" || echo "[cron] Warning: digest request failed"
          sleep 1800
        done
      ) &
      (
        while true; do
          echo "[cron] Processing meeting briefs..."
          /usr/bin/curl -s -X GET "$${INTERNAL_API_URL}/api/meeting-briefs" -H "Authorization: Bearer $${CRON_SECRET}" || echo "[cron] Warning: meeting-briefs request failed"
          sleep 900
        done
      ) &
      (
        while true; do
          echo "[cron] Renewing email watches..."
          /usr/bin/curl -s -X GET "$${INTERNAL_API_URL}/api/watch/all" -H "Authorization: Bearer $${CRON_SECRET}" || echo "[cron] Warning: watch request failed"
          sleep 21600
        done
      ) &
      wait

However, I've spent too much time on it already so I'll have to come back to this later...

Updated Nov 20, 2025: Container starts, no errors in console - but GOOGLE_PUBSUB_TOPIC_NAME must be set to avoid an error. Fixed healthcheck, too.

Updated March 19, 2026: Everything seems to be working great!

[colinmollenhour]

Updated.. I think it's really close now - have an issue with my proxy not getting an SSL but not sure if it's a Coolify bu or woth ngin t

[colinmollenhour]

I believe the template works now as far as running and having all of the right environment variables in place, but the container image does not have the migrations built into it so the database is not populated. Added a question here: elie222/inbox-zero#992 (comment)

[colinmollenhour]

This is now fully working with the latest officially built container!
(edited the above docker-compose.yml)

[colinmollenhour]

This is now working fully - added cron job. Unfortunately, there is no pre-built cron container, so if new cron jobs are added, the template script will need to be updated.