The APRS Messaging Service provides a familiar, email interface to APRS messaging, making it compatible with existing email client software and services. It is built upon the APRS-IS, and utilizes common protocols like IMAP and SMTP. APRS-MS is open source and a running instance is available at aprs-ms.net. Read more
To install, run python setup.py install.
You can easily test the code inside a virtualenv.
After installation, you can run aprs-ms-collect to get all message traffic into the database, and aprs-ms-imap to offer IMAP connectivity. Options are set in aprs-ms.cfg files found in the folder from where the executables are run, /etc, and where the APRS_MS_CONFIGURATION environmental variable points to. A sample configuration file can be found in the root of the source repository.