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postalserver/postal

📮 A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail

RubyRails#mail#mail-server#postal#ruby

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Start here

Website ↗postalserver.ioThe project's own site.Docs ↗docs.postalserver.ioLinked from the README.

Setup script in the repo

The maintainers included bin/setup. Open it to see how it's meant to be run: bin/setup on GitHub.

Will it work on my device?

Yes, it runs on macOS

You'll build it yourself with Ruby.
It also needs MariaDB running (Docker handles this).

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7 steps on macOS

Clone the repository

Needs Git: xcode-select --install

git clone https://github.com/postalserver/postal.git
cd postal

Install the required runtimes

Ruby 3.4.6

brew install rbenv ruby-build
rbenv install --skip-existing

3
Start backing services
Needs: MariaDB
```
brew install --cask docker  # Docker Desktop
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d
```
If you see Cannot connect to the Docker daemon: start Docker Desktop (or the Docker service) first.
4
Install dependencies
```
bundle install
```
5
Set up the database / app
```
bin/rails db:prepare
```
6
Run it
```
bin/dev
```
7
Run the tests
```
bin/rails test
```

Did you get it running?

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