Mail in a Box ============= One-click deployment of your own mail server and personal cloud (so to speak). This draws heavily on Sovereign by Alex Payne (https://github.com/al3x/sovereign) and the "NSA-proof your email in 2 hours" blog post by Drew Crawford (http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsa-proof-your-e-mail-in-2-hours/). Deploying to EC2 from the command line -------------------------------------- Sign up for Amazon Web Services. Create an Access Key at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home?#security_credential. Download the key and save the information somewhere secure. Set up your environment and paste in the two parts of your access key that you just downloaded: sudo apt-get install ec2-api-tools export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=your_access_key_id export AWS_SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key export EC2_URL=ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com export AWS_AZ=us-east-1a The first time around, create a new volume (disk drive) to store your stuff. source ec2/new_volume.sh If you want to reuse an existing volume: export VOLUME_ID=...your existing volume id... Here we're using the Ubuntu 13.04 amd64 instance-store-backed AMI in the us-east region. You can select another at http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/. Generate a new "keypair" (if you don't have one) that will let you SSH into your machine after you start it: ec2addkey mykey > mykey.pem chmod go-rw mykey.pem Then launch a new instance. We're creating a m1.small instance --- it's the smallest instance that can use an instance-store-backed AMI. So charges will start to apply. source ec2/start_instance.sh It will wait until the instance is available. You'll probably want to associate it with an Elastic IP. If you do, you'll need to update the INSTANCE_IP variable. Configure the server: ssh -i mykey.pem ubuntu@$INSTANCE_IP Somehow download these files. sh scripts/index.sh ... logout Terminate your instance with: ec2-terminate-instances $INSTANCE