You can read all about the bot here.
This repository contains source code for the bot itself under packages/bot and for its HTTP API under packages/api. Self hosting the API is unsupported and not recommended, and if you plan on exposing it to the internet you'll also need an instance of the base ChatSift API, which can be found in the dashboard repo. It only offers CRUD over configuration and basic data as it's mostly intended for our dashboard.
A Docker image that can be used for running anything in this monorepo is available on DockerHub under chatsift/modmail.
With all those notices out of the way, the docker-compose.yml file is probably the easiest way to get started.
Before you do anything else (even if you're using Docker), make sure to run yarn --immutable.
If you don't have yarn installed, npm i -g yarn (assuming you have a nodejs installation).
Simply create a new file called .env, follow the example from .env.example,
and then docker-compose build && docker-compose up -d.
Now that the bot and postgres server are up, run yarn deploy-commands to register
the global slash commands, and then yarn prisma migrate deploy to get the database ready.
Alternatively, you can run your own postgresql instance, build the code with yarn build,
and start up the bot using yarn start-bot
in whatever way keeps it online (e.g. pm2).
Assuming you're using Docker, you essentially just need to follow the steps above again.
docker-compose build && docker-compose up -d, re-deploy slash commands, and deploy prisma
migrations.
Just about everything above, except set the NODE_ENV env var to dev. If you're trying to
figure out something wrong with cron jobs, DEBUG_JOBS=true.
This project is lincensed under the GNU AGPLv3 license. View the full file here.
