Postal is an open-source email server that allows you to send and receive emails securely. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install the Postal server on Manjaro.
Before we start, make sure that you have the following prerequisites in your system:
To install Postal on Manjaro, we need to install some dependencies. Run the following command to install them:
sudo pacman -S curl gnupg ruby
Now we will install Postal using the following command:
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/linagora/postal/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash
The above command will add the Postal repository to your system.
Next, run the following command to install Postal:
sudo pacman -S postal
After installing Postal, we need to initialize the database and create an administrative user.
To do this, run the following command:
sudo postal initialize
This will prompt you to enter your email address and password. Enter the details and remember them as you will need them to log in to Postal Web interface.
Now that the installation and initialization of Postal is complete, we can start Postal service using the following command:
sudo postal start
To access Postal, open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:5000. You will be prompted to enter your email address and password which you created during step 3.
And that’s it! You have successfully installed Postal on your Manjaro machine.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Postal on Manjaro. Postal is an excellent open-source email server that you can use to send and receive emails securely.
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