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 # mailcow: dockerized documentation
 
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 This project aims to provide the mailcow: dockerized documention for the [mailcow: dockerized](https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized) project.
 
 https://mailcow.github.io/mailcow-dockerized-docs
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+To build it locally, you need the [Material theme for MkDocs](https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/), [MkDocs](https://www.mkdocs.org/) itself and [Pygments](http://pygments.org/). To install these with [pip](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/) and get it up and running, fire up your terminal and enter
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+```
+pip install mkdocs-material
+mkdocs serve
+```
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