Mail Coach | Messenger for the Web

Mail Coach is an Open Source Messenger based on Socket.IO and Node JS.
You can even run the Server on a small host, like a Raspberry Pi and use it with every Webbrowser.

You can test our own Mail Coach Server as a Live Demo here

Features

• Login with Username
• Send Messeges to all Users in your Room
• Create new Room
• Disable logging of Messeges in a Room for better privacy
• Secure your Room with a Password
• User Simley Picker for better Communitcation
• Usable in Webbrowser on PC and Mobile
• Process Management with PM2

Requirements

• Linux Server with root access
• MySQL Server (on the same host or network)

Installation

• Update your System(apt update; apt upgrade -y)
• Install NodeJS(apt install nodejs)
• Install NPM(apt install npm)
• Install PM2(npm install pm2 -g)
• Install Requirements of Node(npm i)
• Clone Git Repository
• Prepare MySQL Server (Look at ChatDB-SQL.txt script)
• Copy or Rename database.conf.example to database.conf and add Credentials for your Database User
• Start Mail Coach server with node server.js for development or pm2 start server.js for production use
• Start using Mail Coach with all your Friends on http://Server-IP:3000
• You can monitor your System with pm2 monit

Reverse Proxy

If you want to make your Mail Coach Server available to the Internet, you should use a NGINX Reverse Proxy to redirect the traffic to port 3000. This can be done on the same host or on another server in the network.
More on that topic:
German: https://blog.jrehkemper.de/index.php/2020/12/17/nginx-reverse-proxy/
English: https://blog.jrehkemper.de/index.php/en/2021/03/18/nginx-webserver/