Chasquid is a lightweight email server that aims to be easy to configure and manage. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install chasquid on Clear Linux Latest.
Prerequisites:
Before we start, ensure you have the following installed in your system:
It is always recommended to start by updating your system package repository to ensure that you are installing the latest version of the packages.
Run the following command to update your system
sudo swupd update
The command will download and install all available updates.
Before we install chasquid, we need to install the dependencies that it will need to run. In this step, we will install chasquid dependencies.
Run the following command in the terminal to install chasquid dependencies using the package manager
sudo swupd bundle-add ca-certificates certificate-transparency dns dhcp-client
After the dependencies installation, you can proceed to install chasquid.
We will install chasquid using the zypkg package manager. But before that, we need to create a configuration file for chasquid which will be in the /etc/chasquid.conf directory.
Create the configuration file and add the following configuration to it.
logfile: /var/log/chasquid/chasquid.log
loglevel: info
errorlog: /var/log/chasquid/chasquid.err
smtp:
listen_addr: 0.0.0.0:25
hostname: mail.example.com
max_message_size: 50M
default_domain: example.com
cert_file: /etc/mail/server.pem
cert_key_file: /etc/mail/server.key
auth_server: "unix:/run/saslauthd/mux"
helo_check:
reject_invalid_helo_hostname: true
sender_check:
reject_unresolvable_sender_domain: true
reject_non_existent_sender_address: true
recipient_check:
reject_unresolvable_recipient_domain: true
reject_non_existent_recipient_address: true
Download the chasquid package to the machine using curl and install it.
curl -LO https://github.com/albertito/chasquid/releases/download/0.11.0/chasquid-0.11.0.linux-x86_64.zypp
sudo zypkg install ./chasquid-0.11.0.linux-x86_64.zypp
You have successfully installed chasquid.## Step 4: Start Chasquid
Now we can start chasquid using the following command:
sudo systemctl start chasquid
If you want to configure chasquid to start automatically at system boot, use the following command:
sudo systemctl enable chasquid
To confirm that chasquid has started successfully, use the following command to check its status:
sudo systemctl status chasquid
At this point, you have successfully installed and started chasquid.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install chasquid on Clear Linux Latest step by step. Chasquid is an excellent lightweight email server that is easy to install and configure. For more information on how to configure the chasquid email server, go to the official chasquid documentation on the project's website.
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