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Deploy Modmail on a Windows machine.
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Deploy Modmail on a Windows machine.
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Minimum 2GB of RAM*
At least 2GB available disk space.
Supported Windows version:
Windows 10
Windows 11
It is not recommended to run Modmail with previous versions of Windows such as Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 as they no longer receive important security updates, making your hosted applications significantly more prone to security vulnerabilities.
We will be using the following dependencies:
Chocolatey
Python 3.10
Additional Modmail requirements:
To install these dependencies, we will be using Powershell.
Search “powershell” in the Windows start menu, right-click on it and then click “Run as administrator”.
Then run each of the following commands:
After that, ensure pip and pipenv are installed and updated for Python 3.10 with:
In any folder location of your choice, Shift+Right Click and click on Open PowerShell window here.
In your PowerShell window, run these commands to clone the official Modmail repository locally and cd into the folder:
Install project dependencies inside Modmail's pipenv with:
Lastly, in your PowerShell window simply enter the command below to run your Modmail bot:
If no error shows up, it means that your Modmail is now running correctly.
After the above installation has finished, download and install the GTK runtime for Windows by .
Create a new file in the modmail folder named .env and paste in your environmental variables needed to run Modmail. Refer to the steps in the to find where to obtain these.
