DadaMail is a powerful email marketing solution that allows you to easily create and send newsletters, announcements, and auto-reply messages. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing DadaMail on the latest version of EndeavourOS.
Before you get started with the installation process, there are a few prerequisites that you need to take care of:
sudo pacman -Syu
The first step in installing DadaMail is to download it from the official website. You can download the latest version of DadaMail by visiting the following URL: http://dadamailproject.com/download
Once the download is complete, extract the contents of the downloaded package to a directory of your choice.
DadaMail requires a few Perl modules to be installed on your system. To install these modules, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
This will launch the CPAN shell. Type the following commands in the shell to install the required Perl modules:
install HTML::Template
install Template::Plugin::Date
install Date::Parse
DadaMail requires a MySQL database to store its data. You can create a new MySQL database by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo mysql -u root -p
This will launch the MySQL shell. Type the following commands in the shell to create a new database:
CREATE DATABASE dadamail;
CREATE USER 'dadamail'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dadamail.* TO 'dadamail'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit
Remember to replace "password" with a strong password of your choice.
Now it's time to configure DadaMail. Navigate to the directory where you extracted the contents of the DadaMail package and open the file called DADA/config.dada
Find the line that says default_db_user root and change root to dadamail.
Find the line that says default_db_name dadamail_database and change dadamail_database to dadamail.
Copy the contents of the DADA directory to the Apache document root directory /srv/http/, using the following command:
sudo cp -r DADA/* /srv/http/
Set the proper file permissions for DadaMail by running the following commands:
sudo chown -R http:http /srv/http/
sudo chmod -R 755 /srv/http/
Open your web browser and navigate to the following URL:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi
You should see the DadaMail login screen. Enter the username admin and password mojojojo to log in.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install DadaMail on the latest version of EndeavourOS. The process may seem daunting at first, but by following these steps carefully, you will have DadaMail up-and-running in no time!
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