This bot connects your team to the outside and makes it addressable.
Configure this bot with your team address (e.g. [email protected]), and add all your team members to the crew. Then, every time an outsider writes to your team address, the bot opens a new relay group with all of you; you can use the relay group to discuss the request in private and when you have come to a conclusion, answer the request. The bot will forward the answer to the outsider in the name of the team, hiding the identities of the team members.
To install this bot, run:
git clone https://github.com/deltachat-bot/team-bot
cd team-bot
pip install .
Now you can configure it with an email address you want to use as a team:
team-bot init --email [email protected] --password p455w0rD
This command will show a QR code; scan it with Delta Chat to become part of the "team", the verified group which manages the Team Bot.
Now to run it, simply execute:
team-bot run -v
The bot only works as long as this command is running. Read more about running bots on bots.delta.chat.
If you use pyinfra to manage a server, you can deploy this bot with it. Just import it into your deploy.py file like this:
from team_bot.pyinfra import deploy_team_bot
deploy_team_bot(
unix_user='root', # an existing UNIX user (doesn't need root or sudo privileges)
bot_email='[email protected]', # the email address your team wants to use
bot_passwd='p4ssw0rd', # the password to the email account
)
After you deployed it, you need to do two steps manually:
First, to initialize the bot, create the crew, and join the crew, login to the user with ssh and run:
export $(cat ~/.env | xargs) && ~/.local/lib/team-bot.venv/bin/team-bot init
Then, to start the bot and keep it running in the background, run:
systemctl --user enable --now team-bot
You can view the log output
with journalctl --user -fu team-bot
to confirm that it works.
To get started with developing, run:
python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .[dev]
tox