An opt-in receive-only SMTP listener (PICLOUD_SMTP_BIND) so an MX can point straight at PiCloud. It speaks minimal SMTP (HELO/EHLO/MAIL/RCPT/DATA/RSET/ NOOP/QUIT), resolves each RCPT TO mailbox to the app-owned email trigger that claims it, and inserts an Email outbox row the dispatcher fires — the same tail as the HMAC webhook, unchanged. - migration 0076: email_trigger_details.inbound_address (case-insensitively unique among app triggers) + TriggerRepo::email_inbound_target_by_address / SmtpInboundTarget; the interactive create-email API accepts inbound_address. - crates/picloud/src/smtp.rs: a small tokio accept loop + session state machine + a testable deliver() core + a minimal RFC-5322 header/body split. DATA is size-capped with dot-unstuffing; no AUTH/STARTTLS (TLS terminates upstream — the recipient address + per-app isolation are the boundary). - spawned in run_server alongside axum::serve, sharing the pool, on the same shutdown signal. Pinned by a picloud integration test (deliver → one Email outbox row for a known mailbox, none for an unknown one) + smtp.rs unit tests (address parse, header/body split). Multipart/MIME decoding is a documented follow-up. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PiCloud
A lightweight, self-hosted, event-driven serverless compute platform. Upload a Rhai script, get an HTTP endpoint. Designed to run on a single modest server with no idle CPU cost, and to scale out to a small cluster when you need it.
Status: Phase 1 — MVP scaffolding in progress.
The authoritative design lives in
serverless_cloud_blueprint.md.
Why
Existing serverless platforms are either cloud-locked, heavyweight, or both. PiCloud aims for the opposite end of the spectrum: one binary, one database, one reverse proxy — running on hardware you already own.
Architecture (one paragraph)
PiCloud splits into three logical services — manager (control plane: scripts, schedules, dashboard), orchestrator (per-node event ingress and dispatch), and executor (per-node Rhai sandbox) — each backed by a *-core Rust library. In MVP they run in a single process; in cluster mode they run as three binaries with one manager and one orchestrator + executor per node. Caddy fronts everything; PostgreSQL is the single source of truth.
See CLAUDE.md for working notes and serverless_cloud_blueprint.md for the full design.
Quick Start
Coming as scaffolding lands. For now:
# Rust toolchain (pinned via rust-toolchain.toml)
cargo check --workspace
# Run the all-in-one MVP binary (once main.rs is wired up)
cargo run -p picloud
Repository Layout
crates/
shared/ cross-cutting types
executor-core/ Rhai engine + sandbox
orchestrator-core/ event ingress, dispatch
manager-core/ control plane
picloud/ MVP all-in-one binary
picloud-{manager,orchestrator,executor}/ cluster-mode binaries (skeleton)
dashboard/ SvelteKit
caddy/ Caddyfile
docker/ Dockerfiles
docs/
git-workflow.md Trunk-based workflow
Contributing
See docs/git-workflow.md for the branching and commit conventions. TL;DR: trunk-based, short-lived branches, Conventional Commits, no force-pushing main.
License
TBD.