Mailtrain is an open-source email marketing software that allows you to send newsletters, automated emails, and email campaigns. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Mailtrain on Linux Mint.
Before you begin, you need to make sure that you have the following:
If you don't have Node.js and npm installed on your system, you can install them using the following command:
sudo apt install nodejs npm
After the installation is complete, check the version of Node.js and npm by running the following commands:
node -v
npm -v
To install Mailtrain, follow these steps:
git clone https://github.com/Mailtrain-org/mailtrain.git
cd mailtrain
npm install
npm run build
npm start
You should see output similar to the following:
> mailtrain@0.18.2 start /home/user/mailtrain
> node ./start.js
Worker 8302 started.
Application started and listening on http://localhost:3000
Once Mailtrain is running, you can access it by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:3000.
Before using Mailtrain, you need to configure it. The configuration file is located at config/default.json. You can edit this file to customize Mailtrain according to your needs.
You can specify the application port, SMTP server settings, database configuration, and other settings in this file.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Mailtrain on Linux Mint. You also learned how to configure Mailtrain so that you can start sending newsletters, automated emails, and email campaigns.
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