Mailtrain is a self-hosted newsletter application built on Node.js, MongoDB, and Redis. In this tutorial, we'll go through the process of installing Mailtrain on a Fedora Server Latest system.
Before proceeding with the Mailtrain installation, ensure your system has the following prerequisites:
If you don't have Node.js, MongoDB, and Redis installed, you can follow this guide on how to install LEMP stack on Fedora 34.
The first step of installing Mailtrain is to clone its source code from its GitHub repository. To do this, run the following command:
$ git clone https://github.com/Mailtrain-org/mailtrain.git
This command clones the entire source code of Mailtrain into a directory named mailtrain on your Fedora server.
Before running Mailtrain, you must install its dependencies. To do so, navigate to the mailtrain directory and run the following command:
$ npm install
This command installs all the required dependencies listed in the package.json file.
Next, configure Mailtrain by creating a .env file with the following environment variables:
# Port on which Mailtrain server will listen
PORT=3000
# MongoDB connection URL
MONGODB_URL=mongodb://localhost/mailtrain
# Redis connection URL
REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379
# Change this to a random 32-character string
SECRET=your-random-secret
# Domain of the Mailtrain server
MAILTRAIN_HOST=mail.example.com
# Mail server settings - use your own mail server settings
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=myusername@example.com
SMTP_HOST=mail.example.com
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_USER=myusername@example.com
SMTP_PASSWORD=mypassword
You should modify the values of these environment variables according to your requirements.
To run Mailtrain, navigate to the mailtrain directory and run the following command:
$ npm start
This command starts the Mailtrain server and listens on localhost:3000.
If you want to access Mailtrain from a public URL, you can configure Nginx to act as a reverse proxy. To do this, create an Nginx configuration file in the /etc/nginx/conf.d/ directory with the following content:
server {
listen 80;
server_name mail.example.com; # change this to your domain name
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
}
}
Save the file and restart Nginx:
$ sudo systemctl restart nginx
Now, you can access Mailtrain from http://mail.example.com.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Mailtrain on a Fedora Server Latest system. With Mailtrain, you can easily send newsletters and email campaigns to your subscribers.
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