Setup Powermta 4.5:

Introduction:

Hello and welcome to rekblog.com, as per the request of many of our readers, I will share with you guys the best and the easiest way to Setup Powermta 4.5 in a Centos 7.x.

I know there’s a lot of people who want to start from scratch and trying email marketing.

This tutorial is newbie-friendly, to clarify you don’t have to be an IT guy to do it.

No one born with knowledge.

However, Let’s start our journey.

Setup Powermta 4.5: Prerequisite

Let’s make an example of this installation using a Digital Ocean Account.

First, we will deploy a new droplet of $5 per month (Note: Choose whatever droplet you like).

Let’s Choose a Centos 7.6 x64 and a Starter Plan as the screenshot below:

You can do it like me if you want.

Note: If you choose a one-time-password, you will get a temporary password in your email and you will need to change it to make your own.

Otherwise, If you are familiar with SSH Keys you shall connect without a password.

On the other hand, I recommend a software called “Electerm” to organize your workflow.

However, I’m sure a lot of you will like it.

Download the PMTA Package from the following Link: Click Here

Setup Powermta 4.5: Begin the installation

After waiting for your droplet to be created, you will get something like the following picture:

Start connecting to your instance in your terminal:

ssh root@your_ip_address

We will need to install a Linux app to unzip a zipped file by running this command line:

yum install unzip -y

Upload the downloaded file to the root folder by using Electerm (use your preferred software instead).

Now from your terminal, make sure that the file is actually exist:

ll

You should find something like this:

Let’s extract pmta.zip by running this command line below:

unzip pmta.zip

To Setup Powermta 4.5, tape the command bellow:

sh install.sh

Wait for the setup to finish, mostly it will took like 5-10 minutes depends on your instance harward performance.

Setup Powermta 4.5: Troubleshooting

We will need to let Powermta listen to SMTP Incoming Messages.

Therefore, We need to make some changes in the config file.

Let’s Install a Linux editor:

yum install nano -y

Tape the following command to edit the config file:

nano /etc/pmta/config

Search for the following line:

smtp-listener 0.0.0.0/0:25 # listens on all local IPs

and change it to something like this:

smtp-listener 127.0.0.1:2500 # listens on all local IPs

To be able to access Powermta Monitoring Platform, We will need to allow that.

Exactly after the following line http-mgmt-port 8080, add this directive:

 http-access 0/0 admin 

All you have to do is changing from

 http-access 0/0 admin 

to

 http-access your_home_ip_address admin

Example:

 http-access 42.65.21.8 admin

Congratulation, you are all set.

Tape the following command lines to start powermta service in your server:

service pmta restart

service pmtahttp restart

Go to your browser and enter the following:

server_ip:8080

Bingo!

Conclusion:

I hope I explain it better this time.

This Installation process is compatible with Centos 6 and 7, Honestly, I didn’t try it in Centos 8 but you can try it yourself and leave a comment below.

I would love to hear your feedback.

Happy Emailing! You Already enjoyed the gift.

Reda El Kasraoui

Email Developer, SEO Specialist and Full Stack Web Developer
Tetouan, Tetouan/Tangier, 93000, Morocco

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