Fix #11 - add build documentation

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Bulding MailHog
===============
MailHog is built using `make`, and using [this Makefile](Makefile).
If you aren't making any code changes, you can install MailHog using
`go get github.com/ian-kent/Go-MailHog`, since [assets.go](MailHog-UI/assets/assets.go)
is already pre-compiled and committed to this repository.
### Why do I need a Makefile?
MailHog has HTML, CSS and Javascript assets which need to be converted
to a go source file using [go-bindata](https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata).
This must happen before running `go build` or `go install` to avoid compilation
errors (e.g., `no buildable Go source files in MailHog-UI/assets`).
### go generate
The build should be updated to use `go generate` (added in Go 1.4) to
preprocess static assets into go source files.
However, this will break backwards compatibility with Go 1.2/1.3.

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Clone this repository to ```$GOPATH/src/github.com/ian-kent/Go-MailHog``` and type ```make deps```.
See the [Building MailHog](BUILD.md) guide.
Requires Go 1.2+ to build.
Run tests using ```make test``` or ```goconvey```.