How to Install DadaMail on Elementary OS Latest

DadaMail is a popular mailing list management software, which can be used to send newsletters, announcements, and other communications to your subscribers. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install DadaMail on Elementary OS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following:

  • Access to a terminal with sudo privileges
  • A web server (such as Apache or Nginx) installed and configured on your machine
  • PHP and its extensions (including PHP mbstring) installed on your server

Step 1 – Download and Extract DadaMail

  1. Open a terminal window.

  2. Change to the root directory of your web server by typing:

cd /var/www/html

Note: If your web root is different than /var/www/html, navigate to that directory instead.

  1. Download the latest version of DadaMail by typing:

wget https://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/releases/download/v11.18.1/dada-11_18_1.zip

Note: Make sure to replace the URL with the latest release found on the DadaMail website.

  1. After the download completes, extract the zip file by typing:

unzip dada-11_18_1.zip -d dadamail

Note: Make sure to replace the version number in the command with the version number you downloaded.

Step 2 – Configure Permissions

  1. Change the ownership of the DadaMail directory to the web server's user by typing:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data dadamail/

Note: If you are using a different web server than Apache, replace www-data with the name of your web server's user.

  1. Set the appropriate permissions on the DadaMail directory by typing:

sudo chmod -R 755 dadamail/

Step 3 – Configure DadaMail

  1. Create a MySQL database for DadaMail by typing:

mysql -u root -p -e "CREATE DATABASE dadamail;"

Note: Replace dadamail with the name of your desired database.

  1. Create a MySQL user for DadaMail by typing:

mysql -u root -p -e "CREATE USER 'dadamail_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';"

Note: Replace dadamail_user with the name of your desired user and password with a secure password.

  1. Grant privileges to the MySQL user by typing:

mysql -u root -p -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dadamail.* TO 'dadamail_user'@'localhost';"

Note: Replace dadamail with the name of your database and dadamail_user with the name of your user.

  1. Navigate to the DadaMail directory by typing:

cd /var/www/html/dadamail

  1. Rename the DADA/Config.pm.dist file by typing:

mv DADA/Config.pm.dist DADA/Config.pm

  1. Open the DADA/Config.pm file in a text editor by typing:

nano DADA/Config.pm

  1. Locate the following lines in the file:
use DBI;
## DBI - settings for MySQL
$DADA::Config::DBI_DSN     = 'dbi:mysql:dada';
$DADA::Config::DBI_DBNAME  = 'dada';
$DADA::Config::DBI_USER    = 'dada';
$DADA::Config::DBI_PASS    = 'your-db-password';

  1. Modify the DBI_DSN, DBI_DBNAME, DBI_USER, and DBI_PASS parameters with the details of your MySQL database and user that you created in Step 3.

  2. Save and close the DADA/Config.pm file.

Step 4 – Install DadaMail

  1. Navigate back to the dadamail directory by typing:

cd ..

  1. Run the DadaMail installer by typing:

sudo perl dadamail/install_dada.pl

  1. Follow the prompts in the installer to complete the installation.

Step 5 – Access DadaMail

  1. Open a web browser.

  2. Navigate to http://localhost/dadamail.cgi.

  3. Log in with the default username and password: dada / password.

  4. Follow the setup wizard to configure DadaMail for your specific use case.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed DadaMail on Elementary OS Latest. You can now use DadaMail to manage your mailing lists and send communications to your subscribers.