1 public-inbox (server-side) installation
2 ---------------------------------------
4 This is for folks who want to setup their own public-inbox instance.
5 Clients should see https://ssoma.public-inbox.org/INSTALL.html instead
6 if they want to import mail into their personal inboxes.
8 TODO: this still needs to be documented better,
9 also see the scripts/ and sa_config/ directories in the source tree
11 It should also be possible to use public-inbox with only IMAP
12 (or even POP(!)) access to a mailbox.
14 standard MakeMaker installation (Perl)
15 --------------------------------------
20 make install # root permissions may be needed
22 Requirements (server MDA)
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26 * SpamAssassin (spamc/spamd)
27 * MTA - postfix is recommended
28 * lynx (for converting HTML messages to text)
29 * Perl and several modules: (Debian package name)
30 - Date::Parse libtimedate-perl
31 - Email::Filter libemail-filter-perl
32 - Email::MIME libemail-mime-perl
33 - Email::MIME::ContentType libemail-mime-contenttype-perl
34 - Encode::MIME::Header perl
35 - IPC::Run libipc-run-perl
39 - Plack[1] libplack-perl
40 - Mail::Thread (2.5+)[1] libmail-thread-perl
41 - URI::Escape[1] liburi-perl
42 - Search::Xapian[3] libsearch-xapian-perl
43 - IO::Compress::Gzip[3] libio-compress-perl
45 - DBD::SQLite[3] libdbd-sqlite3-perl
46 - Danga::Socket[4] libdanga-socket-perl
47 - Net::Server[4] libnet-server-perl
49 [1] - Only required for serving/generating Atom and HTML pages.
50 [3] - Optional for HTML web interface and HTTP/NNTP servers
51 [4] - Optional for HTTP and NNTP servers
53 When installing Search::Xapian, make sure the underlying Xapian
54 is patched against the index corruption bug documented in:
56 https://bugs.debian.org/808610
58 For Debian 8.0, this means installing from jessie-backports
59 until the fix lands in jessie.
61 # Ensure the following line is in your apt sources.list(5)
62 # (typically /etc/apt/sources.list):
64 deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main
69 apt-get install -t jessie-backports libxapian22
71 to install the package.
73 public-inbox will never store unregeneratable data in Xapian
74 or any other search database we might use; Xapian corruption
75 will not destroy critical data.
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