DadaMail is a free and open-source email marketing software that allows you to send newsletters and email campaigns to your subscribers. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of DadaMail on FreeBSD Latest.
Before installing any software, it is important to update the system to the latest version. To do this, open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo pkg update && sudo pkg upgrade
DadaMail requires Perl to run. Therefore we need to install Perl and some required Perl modules:
sudo pkg install perl5 p5-GD p5-MIME-Base64 p5-Email-MIME p5-Email-MIME-Encodings p5-DBI p5-URI p5-LWP-Protocol-https
Visit the DadaMail download page and download the latest version of DadaMail. Once the download is complete, navigate to the download directory and extract the archive using the following command:
tar -xzvf dadamail-X.X.X.tgz
Make sure to replace X.X.X with the downloaded version number.
In order to use DadaMail, we need to move it to a web server. If you don't have a web server installed, we recommend installing Apache:
sudo pkg install apache24
Once Apache is installed, move the extracted dada-VERSION directory to /usr/local/www/apache24/data/ using the following command:
sudo mv dada-VERSION /usr/local/www/apache24/data/
Make sure to replace VERSION with the downloaded version number.
DadaMail comes with a setup script that we need to run to configure it. Navigate to the DadaMail directory and run the following command:
sudo perl dada/install.pl
Follow the instructions provided by the setup script to configure DadaMail.
Finally, start Apache so that DadaMail can be accessed via a web browser using the following command:
sudo service apache24 start
Once you have completed the above steps, you can access DadaMail via a web browser by navigating to http://localhost/dada-mail-VERSION/ where VERSION is the downloaded version number.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed DadaMail on FreeBSD Latest!
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