diff --git a/config/user-patches.sh b/config/user-patches.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..aedb86be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/user-patches.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+echo "Default user-patches.sh successfully executed!"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/target/start-mailserver.sh b/target/start-mailserver.sh
index 0260002f..e027ba4e 100644
--- a/target/start-mailserver.sh
+++ b/target/start-mailserver.sh
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ function register_functions() {
 	################### >> misc funcs
 
 	_register_misc_function "_misc_save_states"
+	_register_misc_function "_misc_user_patches"
 
 	################### << misc funcs
 
@@ -1595,6 +1596,18 @@ function _misc_save_states() {
 	fi
 }
 
+function _misc_user_patches() {
+	notify 'task' '_misc_user_patches start'
+
+	if [ -f /tmp/docker-mailserver/user-patches.sh ]; then
+		chmod +x /tmp/docker-mailserver/user-patches.sh
+		/tmp/docker-mailserver/user-patches.sh
+		notify 'inf' "Executed 'config/user-patches.sh'"
+	else
+		notify 'inf' "No user patches executed because optional '/tmp/docker-mailserver/user-patches.sh' is not provided."
+	fi
+}
+
 ##########################################################################
 # >> Start Daemons
 ##########################################################################