-Note: this still needs to be documented better,
+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)
--------------------------------------
Requirements (server MDA)
-------------------------
+
* git
-* ssoma - http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/README
* SpamAssassin (spamc/spamd)
* MTA - postfix is recommended
-* lynx (for converting HTML messages to text)
* Perl and several modules: (Debian package name)
- - CGI perl-modules[1]
- Date::Parse libtimedate-perl
- - Email::Address libemail-address-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::Open2 perl
- IPC::Run libipc-run-perl
- - Mail::Thread (2.5+) libmail-thread-perl
- - URI::Escape liburi-perl
- - XML::Atom::SimpleFeed libxml-atom-simplefeed-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.
- Keep in mind this will be split into a separate Debian package
- when CGI.pm is dropped from the Perl standard library.
- Plack/PSGI, FastCGI, and mod_perl2 will all be supported.
+[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, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> and all contributors.
-License: AGPLv3 or later <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
+
+Copyright 2013-2016 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
+License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>