Reading the repo
Reading the repo
How to install on Windows
📮 A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail
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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?
wsl --install) plus the Linux steps is the smoothest path.Then run powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\setup.ps1. It stops at the first error and is safe to run again. Servers and tests aren't started; it lists them at the end. Read it first.
Needs Git: winget install Git.Git
git clone https://github.com/postalserver/postal.git cd postal
Ruby 3.4.6
# Install Ruby+Devkit from https://rubyinstaller.org (or use WSL — recommended for Ruby)
Needs: MariaDB
winget install Docker.DockerDesktop docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d
bundle install
ruby bin/rails db:prepare
ruby bin/dev
ruby bin/rails test
This project relies on Unix tooling. On Windows, WSL2 (wsl --install) plus the Linux steps is the smoothest path.
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