In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps of installing DadaMail on MXLinux. DadaMail is an intuitive email marketing software that allows users to send mass email messages to a list of subscribers. It comes with tons of features to make email marketing easy and effective.
Before installing any software, it’s recommended to update your system packages to the latest version. You can achieve this by running the following command in your terminal:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
DadaMail requires a web server to run. We’ll use Apache, which is one of the most popular web servers in use today.
To install Apache on MXLinux, run:
sudo apt install apache2
After installation, start the Apache server using:
sudo systemctl start apache2
You can verify whether Apache is running or not by running:
sudo systemctl status apache2
DadaMail is written in Perl, which needs to be installed on your server. Run the following command to install Perl:
sudo apt install perl
Next, install the required Perl modules by running:
sudo apt install libwww-perl libarchive-zip-perl libio-compress-perl libjson-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libhtml-template-perl libemail-mime-perl libmime-types-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libdigest-sha-perl
To download DadaMail, navigate to the project’s website at http://dadamailproject.com/ and download the latest version. We’ll use version 11.11.1 for this tutorial.
Download the package by running:
wget https://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/archive/refs/tags/v11.11.1.tar.gz
When the download is complete, extract the package using:
tar -xvzf v11.11.1.tar.gz
Move the extracted directory to Apache’s default document root:
sudo mv dada-mail-11.11.1 /var/www/html/dada-mail
Create a configuration file for DadaMail by running:
sudo cp /var/www/html/dada-mail/.dada_files/dada.conf-sample /var/www/html/dada-mail/.dada_files/dada.conf
Edit the dada.conf file using your favorite command-line editor:
sudo nano /var/www/html/dada-mail/.dada_files/dada.conf
Edit the following lines:
$dada_root_dir = "/var/www/html/dada-mail";
$dada_url_host = "http://<your-domain-or-ip-address>/dada-mail/";
Replace
Save and exit the file.
Change the ownership and permissions of the DadaMail directory to the Apache web server user:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/dada-mail
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/dada-mail
You can now access DadaMail by opening your web browser and navigating to:
http://
You’ll be taken to the DadaMail login page where you can log in with the user credentials created during installation.
In this tutorial, we’ve shown you how to install DadaMail on MXLinux. You can now use DadaMail to send mass email newsletters to your subscribers.
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