Dada Mail is a web-based email management system that allows you to easily create and send newsletters, messages, and announcements to your email list subscribers. It is free and open-source software that is written in Perl programming language.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Dada Mail on OpenSUSE Latest. The installation process is straightforward and can be completed in a few steps.
To install Dada Mail on OpenSUSE Latest, you should have:
Before installing Dada Mail, you need to install Apache and Perl on your OpenSUSE Latest server. Run the following command to install Apache and Perl:
sudo zypper install apache2 perl
Download the latest version of Dada Mail from the project website. You can use the following command to download Dada Mail:
wget https://dadamailproject.com/d/VERSION/dada-VERSION.tar.gz
Replace "VERSION" with the version number of Dada Mail you want to install. For example, to download version 11.12.0, run the following command:
wget https://dadamailproject.com/d/11.12.0/dada-11.12.0.tar.gz
Once the download is complete, extract the downloaded Dada Mail archive using the following command:
tar -xzf dada-VERSION.tar.gz
Replace "VERSION" with the version number of Dada Mail you downloaded. For example:
tar -xzf dada-11.12.0.tar.gz
This will extract the Dada Mail files to a directory named "dada-VERSION".
Next, copy the Dada Mail directory to the DocumentRoot of your Apache web server:
sudo mv dada-VERSION /srv/www/htdocs/dada
To allow the web server to write to the data directory, create a directory named "dada_data" in the same directory as the Dada Mail web files:
sudo mkdir -p /srv/www/htdocs/dada/dada_data
sudo chown -R wwwrun:www /srv/www/htdocs/dada/dada_data
Before you can use Dada Mail, you need to configure it by editing the configuration file. To do this, navigate to the Dada Mail directory and copy the example configuration file to the "dada_config.cgi" file:
cd /srv/www/htdocs/dada
cp dada_config.cgi.dist dada_config.cgi
Next, open the "dada_config.cgi" file using a text editor:
sudo nano dada_config.cgi
In the file, update the "script_url" parameter with the URL of your Dada Mail installation:
my $CONFIG = {
script_url => 'http://example.com/dada',
...
Replace "http://example.com/dada" with the URL of your Dada Mail installation.
You can also modify other settings in the configuration file according to your needs.
Now that you have installed and configured Dada Mail, you need to start Apache web server:
sudo systemctl start apache2
To make sure Apache starts automatically at system boot, run:
sudo systemctl enable apache2
To test your Dada Mail installation, open a web browser and navigate to the URL of your Dada Mail installation. You should see the Dada mail login page.
Enter the login credentials you set up during the installation process and click "Login". You should now be logged in to Dada Mail and ready to start creating and sending newsletters and messages to your subscribers.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Dada Mail on OpenSUSE Latest. With Dada Mail, you can create and send newsletters and messages to your subscribers easily and efficiently.
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