A proof of concept for a webmail client with Meteor. Only some of the features have been implemented, and there is no security. Use at your own risk!
Mail doesn't attempt to reinvent the wheel, and relies on a SMTP server for sending and receiving emails. You will need to have a working mail configuration first. Postfix is recommended - see for example the Debian Postfix HOWTO.
See also the Incoming emails section below, to feed incoming emails into Mail.
Clone the source repository:
$ git clone git://github.com/antoviaque/mail.git
$ cd mail
Install the following packages (Debian-based systems):
$ sudo apt-get install python-daemon mongodb python-pymongo mongodb-clients mongodb-server curl python-pip
Install python dependencies:
$ sudo pip install -r requirements
$ sudo apt-get install python g++ make
$ mkdir ~/nodejs && cd $_
$ wget -N http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf node-latest.tar.gz && cd `ls -rd node-v*`
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
Install npm:
$ curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh
Edit the configuration if you want to change one of the default values:
$ cp local_settings.sh.example local_settings.sh
$ gvim local_settings.sh
See local_settings.sh.example to get a list of the available configuration variables are available, with their default values.
Run the server:
$ make run
It will also get meteor and its dependencies.
Mail should now be accessible, by pointing your browser to http://localhost:4000/
Mail receives incoming emails from the SMTP server through the LMTP protocol, a subset of the SMTP protocol.
First, start the LMTP daemon:
$ cd /path/to/mail/
$ make run-lmtpd
Now, you need to configure your SMTP server, to get him to deliver the incoming emails to Mail rather than on a local mailbox. The examples below are for Postfix, but you should be able to use any mailer able to forward to an LMTP server.
For example with Postfix, add the following to /etc/postfix/main.cf:
virtual_transport = lmtp:127.0.0.1:1111
virtual_mailbox_domains = maildev.plebia.org
Then reload postfix:
$ sudo service postfix reload
This will feed emails addressed to any address like @maildev.plebia.org to Mail, by feeding them through the LMTPD server, running on 127.0.0.1 on port 1111.
Also, make sure the domain name(s) you use for virtual_mailbox_domains aren't in mydestination = in main.cf.
Using virtual_transport is the easiest option, but sometimes you want to be able to define different transports for different domains. In that case, you can add the following to main.cf:
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
Then add the following line to /etc/postfix/transport:
maildev.plebia.org lmtp:127.0.0.1:1111
Then compile the transport file and reload postfix:
$ postmap /etc/postfix/transport
$ sudo service postfix reload
If you would like to start the Meteor server in development mode:
$ make dev
If it refuses to start with the following message throw errnoException(errno, 'watch');, you need to increase the number of allowed instances from inotify (Linux):
# echo 8192 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances
Copyright (C) 2012 Xavier Antoviaque xavier@antoviaque.org
This software's license gives you freedom; you can copy, convey, propagate, redistribute and/or modify this program under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version of the AGPL published by the FSF.
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Copyright (C) 2012 Tobias van Schneider http://www.vanschneider.com/work/mail/
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