How to Install Piler on Manjaro

In this tutorial, we will explain the steps needed to install Piler on the Manjaro operating system. Piler is a popular email archiving software designed to manage and archive emails.

Prerequisites

Before installing Piler, make sure that your Manjaro system meets the following requirements:

• A non-root user with sudo privileges
• A running instance of a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), such as Postfix or Exim
• MySQL or PostgreSQL database server installed

Step 1: Install Dependencies

Before installing Piler, we need to install some required dependencies on our system.

Open the terminal and run the following command to update your system:

sudo pacman -Syu

Once the system is updated, install the required dependencies using the following command:

sudo pacman -S git make cmake gcc mariadb postgresql libmysqlclient libicu libicu-dev

Step 2: Install Piler

After installing the dependencies, we can proceed to install Piler. We will install it from source.

Clone the Piler repository using git by running the following command in your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/mailpiler/piler.git

Once the repository is cloned, navigate to the Piler directory:

cd piler

Now run the following commands to install Piler:

make clean
make
sudo make install

Step 3: Configure Piler

After installing Piler, we need to configure it to archive emails.

Create a configuration file by copying the example configuration file provided with Piler:

cp /usr/local/etc/piler/piler.conf.example /usr/local/etc/piler/piler.conf

Edit the configuration file using your preferred text editor:

sudo nano /usr/local/etc/piler/piler.conf

Edit the configuration file to set up your database and email server settings.

Step 4: Configure the Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)

Piler requires a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) such as Postfix or Exim to archive emails. We will use Postfix in this tutorial.

Install Postfix using the following command:

sudo pacman -S postfix

Once Postfix is installed, set up the local_transport parameter in the Postfix configuration file /etc/postfix/main.cf with the following value:

local_transport = piler-pipe:localhost:10025

Now restart Postfix to apply the changes:

sudo systemctl restart postfix

Step 5: Start Piler

All configuration is done. It's time to start the Piler service.

Use the following commands to start the Piler service, and then enable it to start at boot time:

sudo systemctl start piler
sudo systemctl enable piler

Conclusion

Piler is now installed and configured on your Manjaro system. You can now use it to archive emails.

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