mail_tracker

A project for System Programming @ TU-Sofia

Setup

• Install Postfix for the SMTP server. Use the default configuration\

sudo apt install postfix

• Install pyenv

curl -L https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-installer/raw/master/bin/pyenv-installer | bash

• Remove these lines from .bashrc

export PATH="~/.pyenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"
eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"

• Install python 3.6.4 and create an environment

pyenv install 3.6.4
pyenv virtualenv 3.6.4 mail-tracker-env
pyenv activate mail-tracker-env

• Install python requirements.

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run the db migrations

cd mail_tracker_web
python manage.py migrate

• Run the webserver

cd mail_tracker_web
python manage.py runserver

• Run the POP3 processing application in a different tab

cd pop3_client
python client.py

• Open your browser and go to

localhost:8000