Installation section in README

[dokteurstore]

Since there is no installation procedure in the README, I've tried to install maildump in this way :

1. Downloaded source code from v1.0
2. Extracted it
3. executed python3 setup.py build
4. executed python3 setup.py install
5. Launched server with maildump

And I get an Internal Server Error when trying to connect to http://127.0.0.1:1080

Here is the trace :

[2021-01-19 12:21:48,336] ERROR in app: Exception on / [GET]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/Flask-1.1.2-py3.8.egg/flask/app.py", line 2447, in wsgi_app
    response = self.full_dispatch_request()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/Flask-1.1.2-py3.8.egg/flask/app.py", line 1952, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/Flask-1.1.2-py3.8.egg/flask/app.py", line 1821, in handle_user_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/Flask-1.1.2-py3.8.egg/flask/_compat.py", line 39, in reraise
    raise value
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/Flask-1.1.2-py3.8.egg/flask/app.py", line 1950, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.dispatch_request()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/Flask-1.1.2-py3.8.egg/flask/app.py", line 1936, in dispatch_request
    return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/maildump-1.0-py3.8.egg/maildump/web.py", line 39, in home
    return render_template('index.parcel.html', version=get_version())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/Flask-1.1.2-py3.8.egg/flask/templating.py", line 138, in render_template
    ctx.app.jinja_env.get_or_select_template(template_name_or_list),
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/Jinja2-3.0.0a1-py3.8.egg/jinja2/environment.py", line 885, in get_or_select_template
    return self.get_template(template_name_or_list, parent, globals)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/Jinja2-3.0.0a1-py3.8.egg/jinja2/environment.py", line 838, in get_template
    return self._load_template(name, self.make_globals(globals))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/Jinja2-3.0.0a1-py3.8.egg/jinja2/environment.py", line 812, in _load_template
    template = self.loader.load(self, name, globals)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/Jinja2-3.0.0a1-py3.8.egg/jinja2/loaders.py", line 112, in load
    source, filename, uptodate = self.get_source(environment, name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/Flask-1.1.2-py3.8.egg/flask/templating.py", line 60, in get_source
    return self._get_source_fast(environment, template)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/Flask-1.1.2-py3.8.egg/flask/templating.py", line 89, in _get_source_fast
    raise TemplateNotFound(template)
jinja2.exceptions.TemplateNotFound: index.parcel.html

So can anyone update the Documenation to make the installation process more clear ? Thanks

[dokteurstore]

Fixed it. So I shouldn't have installed it from source just pip3 install maildump

[ThiefMaster]

You are right, maildump should be installed using pip.

When building from source for whatever reason, you would need to use npm ci and npm run build to build the webapp frontend.