Response Installation

Dependencies

All in one primer for Debian-like systems:

$ sudo aptitude install python python-{mysqldb,sqlalchemy}

• Python 2.6 or later (no Python 3 support planned yet)
• MySQLdb (Python interface to the MySQL server)
• SQLAlchemy (used only for connection pooling)

Installation using Git on Debian-like systems

1. Prepare the database backend, see Example backend configurations

2. Install the roundcube plugin, see Roundcube plugin

3. Install the response-suite:

   $ sudo -i
   $ aptitude install git-core
   $ aptitude install python python-{mysqldb,sqlalchemy}
   $ useradd --system --home-dir /nonexistant --shell /bin/false response
   $ git clone git://labs.feurix.org/feurix/mail/response /opt/response
   $ cd /opt/response
   $ cp response.cfg /etc/
   $ mkdir -p /var/run/response
   $ chown response:response /etc/response.cfg /var/run/response
   $ chmod 600 /etc/response.cfg
   $ chmod 700 /var/run/response
   
   $ cp examples/debian-initscript /etc/init.d/response-lmtpd
   $ chmod 755 /etc/init.d/response-lmtpd
   
   # edit /etc/response.cfg

4. Watch the log while starting the lmtpd daemon:

   $ tail -f /var/log/mail.log
   $ /etc/init.d/response-lmtpd start

5. If everything is fine, go configure Postfix. See Postfix configuration example

6. Edit the init script and drop –debug, then restart it.

7. Try running response-notify and response-cleanup, get used to them.

8. Schedule running response-notify and response-cleanup using Cron, take a look at the crontab example. (e.g. /etc/cron.d/response):

   $ cp examples/crontab /etc/cron.d/response
   # edit /etc/cron.d/response

Update

Update using Git:

$ cd /opt/response
$ git pull
$ /etc/init.d/response-lmtpd restart

Customize

If you want to change any of the code, for example the validation code:

$ cd /opt/response
$ git checkout -b my-changes
# edit validate.py and others...