Phabricator Administrator's Handbook/Configure inbound e-mail/Using an existing mailbox

You can configure inbound e-mail in a Phabricator also using an existing mailbox. This aspect is not covered in the official documentation because it's somehow alpha. How it works Alice writes to a dedicated e-mail address, like bugs@example.com A daemon checks the mailbox, acting like any IMAP client The daemon discovers the incoming e-mail from Alice, and passes it to Phabricator Phabricator processes the e-mail and creates a Task etc. The advantage of this solution is that it's simple to be deployed, because the mailbox can be any normal mailbox. This solution may not involve any external service: the mailbox may be in your mailserver as well. The daemon is Free software under the Apache 2.0 license. Requirements Note that this requires some packages. In Debian-based distributions: apt install php-imap php-mailparse Configuration The configuration is intended for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems. Adapt it for your needs. Start cloning these small repositories: git clone https://gitpull.it/source/phabricator-inbound-imap-spooler.git git clone https://gitpull.it/source/php-imap-spooler.git Copy the example configuration: cp phabricator-inbound-imap-spooler/config-example.php phabricator-inbound-imap-spooler/config.php Then edit it for your needs: nano phabricator-inbound-imap-spooler/config.php Notes: IMAPBOT_PATH_PHAB must be the root of your Phabricator installation (a filesystem pathname) Then try to run the bot: ./phabricator-inbound-imap-spooler/bot.php If it works, you may want to create a Systemd service similar to this one: # /etc/systemd/system/phabricator-inbound-email.service [Unit] Description=Phabricator E-Mail receiver After=syslog.target network.target mysql.service [Service] Type=simple User=phabricator Group=phabricator ExecStart=/path/to/your/phabricator-inbound-imap-spooler/bot.php [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Then enable and start the service: systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable phabricator-inbound-email systemctl start phabricator-inbound-email