Postal is an open-source mail delivery platform that allows you to send and receive emails from your own server. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Postal on Fedora Server Latest.
Before we can begin with the installation, it is important to make sure your system is up to date. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo dnf update
Postal has multiple dependencies which must be installed before installing Postal. Furthermore, Postal requires a mail server installed on the system to function. We recommend using Postfix, which is the default mail server installed on Fedora. To install Postfix and the dependencies needed for Postal, run the following command:
sudo dnf install -y curl gnupg2 jq sqlite3 openssl postfix
Postal is built using Node.js, so we must install Node.js before installing Postal. The latest version of Node.js can be downloaded from the NodeSource repository. Run the following commands to add the NodeSource repository and install Node.js:
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo bash -
sudo dnf install -y nodejs
Now that we have all the prerequisites installed, we can proceed with installing Postal. Postal can be installed via a one-line command using the following command:
curl -s https://postal.atech.media/setup.sh | sudo bash
This command downloads the Postal setup script and runs it as a root user using sudo.
After installing Postal, we must configure it to be able to use it. Configuration files are stored in the directory /opt/postal/config. Configurations for the Web server, database, and email server can be found in this directory.
To start the Postal service, run the following command:
sudo postal start
You should see output similar to:
Starting Postal. Please wait as this could take a little while...
✘ Finding and starting Postal sub-systems...
✔ e164 ("E.164") phone number library started
✔ Shortener backend started
✔ Post offices started
✔ Web server started
✔ Delivery manager started
✔ SMTP server started
✔ Bounce handler started
✔ Message cleaner started
✔ WebSockets server started
✔ Postal API started
Post-Installation: Rerun this script when postal is updated to finalize the update:
sudo postal upgrade
www-data postfix/postfix-script[19950]: warning: not owned by postfix: /var/spool/postfix/pid
www-data postfix/postfix-script[19965]: starting the Postfix mail system
And we are done!
postal is up and running. Happy mailing :)
In this tutorial, we installed Postal on a Fedora Server Latest installation, configured it to start, and tested it to ensure it was running successfully. We hope this tutorial helps you set up your Postal server.
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