Cypht is a lightweight email solution for consolidating your email accounts and organizing your messages. If you're using Clear Linux Latest and want to try out Cypht, this tutorial will guide you through the installation process.
Before we get started, make sure you have the following:
Cypht requires certain dependencies to function properly. Open up a terminal and run the following command to install them:
sudo swupd bundle-add php-basic php-mycrypt php-gd
To download Cypht, we'll use the wget command in the terminal:
wget https://github.com/jasonmunro/cypht/archive/master.zip
This will download the Cypht source code in a .zip file. Unzip the file:
unzip master.zip
Navigate to the unzipped Cypht directory:
cd cypht-master/
Use the following command to generate the configuration files:
./utils/config.sh
This will open up a series of prompts to configure Cypht. Follow the prompts to configure the email accounts you want to consolidate and other settings.
Cypht is a web-based email client, so we need to start a webserver to serve the webpages. We'll use PHP's built-in webserver for now:
php -S localhost:8000 -t .
This starts up the webserver on localhost on port 8000 and points it to the current directory. Open up a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000 to access Cypht.
To start the Cypht web server automatically on boot, we'll create a systemd service. Create a new file cypht.service in the /etc/systemd/system/ directory:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/cypht.service
Add the following contents to the file:
[Unit]
Description=Cypht Email Client
After=network.target
[Service]
User=[your username]
WorkingDirectory=[path to Cypht directory]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/php -S localhost:8000 -t .
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Replace [your username] with your username and [path to Cypht directory] with the path to the Cypht directory.
Save the file and exit the editor. Then, enable the service:
sudo systemctl enable cypht.service
Now, the web server will start up automatically when the system boots.
If you want to access Cypht from another device on the same network, you'll need to configure the firewall to allow external access. Run the following commands:
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=8000/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
This allows incoming traffic on port 8000. You can access Cypht from another device on the same network by using the IP address of the Clear Linux machine and appending :8000 to the URL.
In this tutorial, we installed Cypht on Clear Linux Latest and configured it to start up automatically on boot. You can now use Cypht to consolidate and organize your email accounts.
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