Postal is an open source mail delivery platform that offers a complete suite of tools for managing email infrastructure. This tutorial will walk you through the steps to install and configure Postal on Elementary OS Latest.
Before you begin, you should have:
Before you start the installation, update your system packages to ensure that you are using the latest version of packages available in the repositories.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Next, install the packages that are required to run Postal.
sudo apt-get install curl gnupg2 apt-transport-https lsb-release -y
Add the Postal repository to your server by running the following command:
curl -s https://postalserver.io/public.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://postalserver.io/postal $(lsb_release -c -s) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/postal.list
After adding the repository, update the packages list and install Postal.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postal -y
Postal needs to be initialized before it can be used. Run the following command to initialize Postal:
sudo postal initialize
To start Postal, use the following command:
sudo postal start
Finally, configure Postal by creating an organization and a user account.
sudo postal make-user
sudo postal make-organization
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Postal on Elementary OS Latest. You can now start using Postal to manage your email infrastructure.
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