MailForm is a lightweight web application that allows you to create custom contact forms for your website or blog. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MailForm, which is available on Github, on POP! OS.
Before we can install MailForm, we need to install a few packages that it requires. The following command will install these dependencies:
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-venv git build-essential python3-dev
Next, we need to clone the MailForm repository from GitHub. We will do this in the home directory of our user account.
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/Feuerhamster/mailform.git mailform
cd mailform
We will now create a virtual environment to isolate MailForm from the system Python installation.
python3 -m venv env
To activate the virtual environment, run the following command:
source env/bin/activate
With the virtual environment activated, we will now install MailForm and all its requirements.
pip install -r requirements.txt
Before we can start using MailForm, we need to configure it with our email settings.
cp config_example.py config.py
nano config.py
You should replace the placeholders in the config.py file with your email settings.
With everything set up, we can now start the MailForm server.
python3 app.py
This will start the server on http://localhost:5000.
Now that you've followed these steps, you should have MailForm up and running on your POP! OS system. You can now use it to create custom contact forms for your website or blog.
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