status-go/_assets/systemd

Status Mailserver

This folder contains setup for running your own Status Mailserver. It uses Systemd for managing the Status Mailserver service.

The steps it takes are:

• Builds statusd
• Generates statusd config
• Generates systemd service
• Starts the service

Usage

To simply configure and start the service run ./start.sh.

In order to manage the new statusd service you use systemctl command:

• systemctl --user start statusd - Start the service
• systemctl --user stop statusd - Stop the service
• systemctl --user status statusd - Check service status
• systemctl --user disable statusd - Disable the service
• journalctl --user-unit statusd - Read the service logs

If you want to remove the service you can just remove its definition:

systemctl --user stop statusd
rm ~/.config/systemd/user/statusd.service
systemctl --user daemon-reload

Settings

All settings are passed through environment variables:

• SERVICE_NAME - Name of the systemd service to be created. (Default: statusd)
• PUBLIC_IP - Your IP visible from the internet and advertised by the Mailserver.
• LISTEN_PORT - Mailserver TCP & UDP port, by default it's 30303 but you might want to use 443.
• RPC_PORT - Control port making it possible to use the JSON-RPC API.
• API_MODULES - API modules to be made available via the RPC_PORT.
• DATA_PATH - Location of Mailserver storage and keys. (Default: /var/tmp/status-go-mail)
• REGISTER_TOPIC - Mynamic mailserver discovery topic. (Default: whispermail)
• MAIL_PASSWORD - Basic HTTP auth password for mailserver. (Default: status-offline-inbox)
• LOG_LEVEL - Set level of log messages to show. (ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, TRACE)

The generated configuration file end up under ${DATA_PATH}/config.json.

Known Issues

• No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions. from systemctl
  • To see logs of a user systemd service you need to be a member of systemd-journal group.
  • Use: bash usermod -a -G systemd-journal ${USER}