Install Mail service

Learn how to install the Mail service with RPM.

Installation options

You can install the Mail service in two different ways:

RPM package
Containerization

To configure the censhare Server for the Mail service, see Mail service.

Installation via RPM

censhare provides the Mail Service as a Linux service in an RPM package.

Follow the steps below to install the RPM package.

To retrieve the required RPMs, you need access to the RPM repository. If you do not have any credentials, create a support ticket.

Download RPM package

Download the required version of the Mail Service from the RPM package to your local computer.

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-> https://rpm.censhare.com/tools-release-rpm/
 
censhare-core-mail-0.4.4-0.noarch.rpm

Copy the RPM to the censhare Server as follows:

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-> scp censhare-core-mail-0.4.4-0.noarch.rpm root@YOUR_SERVER_IP:location

Install RPM package

Install the RPM package on the censhare Server as follows:

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[root@your-censhare server core- mail] # yum install censhare-core-mail-0.4.4-0.noarch.rpm #install version of 0.0.4

Output:

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Examining censhare-core-mail-0.4.4-0.noarch.rpm: censhare-core-mail-0.4.4-0.noarch
Marking censhare-core-mail-0.4.4-0.noarch.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package censhare-core-mail.noarch 0:0.4.4-0 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

========================================================================================================================
 Package                       Arch              Version            Repository                                     Size
========================================================================================================================
Installing:
 censhare-core-mail            noarch            0.4.4-0            /censhare-core-mail-0.4.4-0.noarch            904  

Transaction Summary
========================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total size: 904  
Installed size: 904  
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
  Installing : censhare-core-mail-0.4.4-0.noarch                                                                    1/1 
  Verifying  : censhare-core-mail-0.4.4-0.noarch                                                                    1/1 

Installed:
  censhare-core-mail.noarch 0:0.4.4-0                                                                                   

Complete!

Systemd Service

To start and stop the service, a systemd unit censhare.core-mail.service is created. The service can be controlled in the following ways:

systemctl [enable|disable] censhare.core-mail.service - To enable/disable autostart for the service. For example, systemctl enable core-mail enables the autostart of the Mail Service during system startup.
systemctl [start|stop] censhare.core-mail.service - To start/stop the service.
systemctl status censhare.core-mail.service - To see the status of the service and find out if it has started, is actively running, and enabled/disabled for auto-start.

Check Mail Service

Check that the Mail Service is running as a daemon service in the background:

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[root@your-censhare server core- mail]# systemctl status censhare.core-mail.service

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censhare.core-mail.service - Censhare Mail service.
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/censhare.core-mail.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2022-05-03 12:59:28 CEST; 45s ago
 Main PID: 7188 (java)
   CGroup: /system.slice/censhare.core-mail.service
           └─7188 /usr/bin/java -jar /opt/censer/core-mail/core-mail.jar

Next steps

Set up the Mail service on the censhare Server

Register the Mail service application for OAuth 2.0

Configure e-mail operations