public-inbox (server-side) installation --------------------------------------- This is for folks who want to setup their own public-inbox instance. Clients should see https://ssoma.public-inbox.org/INSTALL.html instead if they want to import mail into their personal inboxes. TODO: this still needs to be documented better, also see the scripts/ and sa_config/ directories in the source tree It should also be possible to use public-inbox with only IMAP (or even POP(!)) access to a mailbox. standard MakeMaker installation (Perl) -------------------------------------- perl Makefile.PL make make test make install # root permissions may be needed Requirements (server MDA) ------------------------- * git * SpamAssassin (spamc/spamd) * MTA - postfix is recommended * lynx (for converting HTML messages to text) * Perl and several modules: (Debian package name) - Date::Parse libtimedate-perl - Email::Filter libemail-filter-perl - Email::MIME libemail-mime-perl - Email::MIME::ContentType libemail-mime-contenttype-perl - Encode::MIME::Header perl - File::Path::Expand libfile-path-expand-perl - IPC::Run libipc-run-perl Optional modules: - Plack[1] libplack-perl - Mail::Thread (2.5+)[1] libmail-thread-perl - URI::Escape[1] liburi-perl - Search::Xapian[3] libsearch-xapian-perl - IO::Compress::Gzip[3] libio-compress-perl - DBI[3] libdbi-perl - DBD::SQLite[3] libdbd-sqlite3-perl - Danga::Socket[4] libdanga-socket-perl - Net::Server[4] libnet-server-perl [1] - Only required for serving/generating Atom and HTML pages. [3] - Optional for HTML web interface and HTTP/NNTP servers [4] - Optional for HTTP and NNTP servers When installing Search::Xapian, make sure the underlying Xapian is patched against the index corruption bug documented in: https://bugs.debian.org/808610 For Debian 8.0, this means installing from jessie-backports until the fix lands in jessie. # Ensure the following line is in your apt sources.list(5) # (typically /etc/apt/sources.list): deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main Then run: apt-get update apt-get install -t jessie-backports libxapian22 to install the package. public-inbox will never store unregeneratable data in Xapian or any other search database we might use; Xapian corruption will not destroy critical data. Copyright --------- Copyright 2013-2016 all contributors License: AGPL-3.0+