EmailRelay is a free and open-source email transfer agent (MTA) that allows you to relay email messages to other email servers. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install EmailRelay on POP! OS Latest.
Before continuing with this tutorial, make sure you have the following:
We need to install build-essential and libssl-dev before proceeding with the installation of EmailRelay. Open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev
Next, we need to download EmailRelay from the official website. Open the terminal and use the following command to download EmailRelay:
wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/emailrelay/emailrelay%208/EmailRelay-8.9.tar.gz
After downloading the EmailRelay archive, we need to extract it. Use the following command to extract EmailRelay:
tar -xvf EmailRelay-8.9.tar.gz
Once we have extracted EmailRelay, we can proceed with the installation. Use the following commands to install EmailRelay:
cd EmailRelay-8.9
sudo make install
After installing EmailRelay, we need to configure it before using it. Create a configuration file with the following command:
sudo nano /etc/emailrelay.conf
Add the following lines to the configuration file:
in-addr:127.0.0.1:10025
out-addr:smtp.gmail.com:587
tls
username:<your-gmail-username>
password:<your-gmail-password>
Replace <your-gmail-username> and <your-gmail-password> with your actual Gmail username and password.
Save and close the configuration file.
After configuring EmailRelay, we can start it using the following command:
sudo emailrelay -d -c /etc/emailrelay.conf
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured EmailRelay on POP! OS Latest. You can now use EmailRelay to relay email messages to other email servers.
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