1 public-inbox (server-side) installation
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3 This is for folks who want to setup their own public-inbox instance.
4 Clients should see http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/INSTALL.html instead.
6 TODO: this still needs to be documented better,
7 also see the scripts/ and sa_config/ directories in the source tree
9 It should also be possible to use public-inbox with only IMAP
10 (or even POP(!)) access to a mailbox.
12 standard MakeMaker installation (Perl)
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18 make install # root permissions may be needed
20 Requirements (server MDA)
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23 * ssoma - http://ssoma.public-inbox.org/INSTALL.html
24 * SpamAssassin (spamc/spamd)
25 * MTA - postfix is recommended
26 * lynx (for converting HTML messages to text)
27 * Perl and several modules: (Debian package name)
28 - Date::Parse libtimedate-perl
29 - Email::Address libemail-address-perl
30 - Email::Filter libemail-filter-perl
31 - Email::MIME libemail-mime-perl
32 - Email::MIME::ContentType libemail-mime-contenttype-perl
33 - Encode::MIME::Header perl
34 - File::Path::Expand libfile-path-expand-perl
35 - IPC::Run libipc-run-perl
39 - CGI[1] perl-modules[2]
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
48 [1] - Only required for serving/generating Atom and HTML pages.
49 [2] - Keep in mind this will be split into a separate Debian package
50 when CGI.pm is dropped from the Perl standard library.
51 Plack/PSGI and mod_perl2 are both supported.
52 [3] - Optional for HTML web interface and NNTP server
53 [4] - Optional for NNTP server
57 Copyright 2013-2015 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
58 License: AGPLv3 or later <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>