Installing Pony Mail on Ubuntu 14.04:

Start by installing the following Ubuntu packages:

  • apache2
  • git
  • liblua5.2-dev
  • lua-sec
  • lua-cjson
  • lua-socket
  • python3
  • python3-pip
  • subversion
sudo apt-get install apache2 git liblua5.2-dev lua-cjson lua-sec lua-socket python3 python3-pip subversion

Install the required Python 3 modules:

sudo pip3 install elasticsearch formatflowed netaddr

Install ElasticSearch:

sudo apt-get openjdk-7-jre-headless
wget -qO - https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb http://packages.elastic.co/elasticsearch/1.7/debian stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elasticsearch-1.7.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elasticsearch

Compile and install mod_lua if necessary (httpd < 2.4.17 on Ubuntu):

apt-get install apache2-dev
svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/modules/lua/
cd lua/
apxs -I/usr/include/lua5.2 -cia mod_lua.c lua_*.c -lm -llua5.2

Check out a copy of Pony Mail:

cd /var/www
git clone https://github.com/Humbedooh/ponymail.git

Start up ElasticSearch:

service elasticsearch start

Set up Pony Mail:

cd /var/www/ponymail/tools
python3 setup.py
[... answer questions asked by the setup script ...]

Set up Apache httpd by adding, for example, the following virtual host configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName mylists.foo.tld
    DocumentRoot /var/www/ponymail/site
    AddHandler      lua-script .lua
    LuaScope        thread
    LuaCodeCache    stat
    AcceptPathInfo  On
</VirtualHost>

Enable mod_lua and start apache:

a2enmod lua
service apache start

Once this is done, you should now have a working copy of Pony Mail!

You may wish to tweak the settings in site/js/config.js and your elasticsearch settings once Pony mail is up and running.

Refer to the General installation documentation for detailed information about archiving messages, OAuth, mail settings and much more.