BIMI-official

Brand Indicators for Message Identification or BIMI (pronounced: Bih-mee) is an emerging email specification that enables the use of brand-controlled logos within supporting email clients

Current Setup is for development purposes.

Requirements

• python >= 3
• pip dependency manager
• virtualenv - To create a python virtual environment
• java - To parse xml file

Installation

Check Python installation

$ python --version

You check python installation steps, in case of issues.

Check pip installation

$ pip --version

Install pip in case it isn't installed.

Clone Bimi project from git repository

$ git clone https://github.com/Hiteshpandey/BIMI-official.git bimi
$ cd bimi

Install Virtualenv

$ pip install virtualenv

Create a virtual environment

$ python -m venv env

This should create a folder named env inside your bimi setup folder. This might look something like this path C:/bimi/env.

Activate virtual environment

# For linux
$ source ./env/bin/activate

# For windows
.\env\Scripts\activate

Install dependencies

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Edit configuration file

you can find custom configuration file here -> custom_config.py

Run the application

$ python .\app.py

Helpful links

https://bimigroup.org/

https://pepipost.com/tutorials/bimi/