diff --git a/__init__.py b/__init__.py
index f27313c..29f7e86 100644
--- a/__init__.py
+++ b/__init__.py
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ Scripts for our redundances bot
 """
 # noqa needed to prevent pyflakes from warning about unused imports
 from jogobot.jogobot import ( output, sendmail, is_active )  # noqa
-import jogobot.config as config  # noqa
+from jogobot.config import config  # noqa
diff --git a/config.py b/config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba5f8c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8  -*-
+#
+#  config.py
+#
+#  Copyright 2016 GOLDERWEB – Jonathan Golder <jonathan@golderweb.de>
+#
+#  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+#  (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+#  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
+#  MA 02110-1301, USA.
+#
+#
+"""
+This module will read config for jogobot from config file (ini-style) using
+python standard library module configparser
+"""
+
+import configparser
+import ast
+
+import pywikibot
+
+
+def load_config():
+    """
+    Reads raw configuration from file and provides it as attribute
+
+    @param  Config-Object
+    @r-type  configparser.ConfigParser
+    """
+    # Load configparser
+    config = configparser.ConfigParser(interpolation=None)
+    # Load config file
+    config.read(pywikibot.config.get_base_dir() + "/jogobot.conf")
+
+    return config
+
+
+def parse_config( raw_config ):
+    """
+    Converts config to normal dictionary
+    Parses each entry with ast.literal_eval
+
+    @param config  Config-Object to parse
+    @type config  configparser.ConfigParser
+
+    @return  Parsed configuration
+    @rtype  dict
+    """
+    # Convert to dict as configparser could contain only strings
+    config = dict( raw_config )
+
+    # Parse all sections
+    for section in raw_config.sections():
+        # Convert to dict as configparser could contain only strings
+        config[section] = dict( raw_config[section] )
+
+        # Parse config with ast.literal_eval to get python datatypes
+        for key, value in config[section].items():
+            config[section][key] = ast.literal_eval( value )
+
+    return config
+
+
+def root_section( config, section="jogobot" ):
+    """
+    Make 'section' entrys available in root level (without sections)
+
+    @param config  Config-Object to parse
+    @type config  dict
+
+    @return  Parsed configuration
+    @rtype  dict
+    """
+    for key, value in config[section].items():
+        config[key] = value
+
+    return config
+
+# Load config
+config = load_config()
+# Parse config to get python datatypes
+config = parse_config( config )
+# Make jogobot section available as root
+config = root_section( config )
diff --git a/jogobot.py b/jogobot.py
index 437f75a..aa8692d 100644
--- a/jogobot.py
+++ b/jogobot.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #
 
 import os
+import shlex
 from datetime import datetime
 from email.mime.text import MIMEText
 from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, TimeoutExpired
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ import pywikibot
 from pywikibot.bot import(
     DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL, STDOUT, VERBOSE, logoutput )
 
-import jogobot.config as config
+from jogobot.config import config
 
 
 def output( text, level="INFO", decoder=None, newline=True,
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ def output( text, level="INFO", decoder=None, newline=True,
     Wrapper for pywikibot output functions
     """
 
-    text = datetime.utcnow().strftime( "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S (UTC) " ) + text
+    text = datetime.utcnow().strftime( config["log_timestamp"] ) + " " + text
 
     if ( level.upper() == "STDOUT" ):
         _level = STDOUT
@@ -102,7 +103,7 @@ pywikibot.output = pywikibot_output
 
 
 def sendmail( Subject, Body, To=None, CC=None, BCC=None,
-              From="JogoBot <tools.jogobot@tools.wmflabs.org>" ):
+              From=config["mail_from"] ):
     """
     Provides a simple wrapper for exim (MTA) on tool labs
     Params should be formated according related fields in RFC 5322
@@ -143,7 +144,7 @@ def sendmail( Subject, Body, To=None, CC=None, BCC=None,
     # We have no local MTA so we need to catch errors and write to file instead
     try:
         # Send the message via exim
-        with Popen( config.mail_cmd, stdin=PIPE,
+        with Popen( shlex.split(config['mail_cmd']), stdin=PIPE,
                     universal_newlines=True ) as MTA:
 
             MTA.communicate(msg.as_string())
@@ -164,9 +165,9 @@ def sendmail( Subject, Body, To=None, CC=None, BCC=None,
     except FileNotFoundError:
 
         # Local fallback
-        with open( config.bot_dir + "/Mail.txt", "a" ) as mail:
+        with open( config["dir"] + "/Mail.txt", "a" ) as mail:
             mail.write( "\n\n" )
-            mail.write( datetime.utcnow().strftime( "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S (UTC)"))
+            mail.write( datetime.utcnow().strftime( config["log_timestamp"]))
             mail.write( "\n" + msg.as_string() )
 
 
@@ -218,8 +219,7 @@ class StatusAPI:
         self.site = pywikibot.Site()
 
         # We need the shell working directory
-        self.cwd = "/home/joni/GOLDERWEB/Daten/Projekte/" +\
-                   "05_Wikimedia/62_BOT/bot"
+        self.cwd = config["dir"]
 
     def is_disabled_on_wiki( self, task_slug=None ):
         """