We install a OpenEMM 2015 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server edition last week, running on a Linode instance.
Our customer would like to send a email to 10,000 on next day of installation, and we choose OpenEMM for his case. To comply with local law in HK for mass information sending, we provides a unsubscription link and service with OpenEMM.
We refer to OpenEMM Documentation Files on its sourceforge project page. Hereby is our notes of system installation of OpenEMM 2015 on Ubuntu Server.
OpenEMM won’t support the newest version of some software, so we choose Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with Longer Term Support from Canonical, instead of latest 16.04 LTS.
Installing screen, vim, modifying ssh port and hostname
$ apt-get install screen vim
then change openssh daemon to port 8022 from 22, restart sshd.
next, we change hostname on /etc/hostname and edit /etc/hosts
$ hostname -F /etc/hostname
Installing MySQL database sever and 32-bit libraries
$ apt-get install mysql-server python-mysqldb
Make sure MySQL 5.6 (or lower) and Python 2 (not 3) installed with above command
$ apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0
Install ia32-libs replacements with above apt-get command
Installing Postfix, Java SE SDK, Tomcat for OpenEMM
$ groupadd openemm
$ useradd -m -g openemm -G adm -d /home/openemm -s /bin/bash -c “OpenEMM-2015” openemm
$ apt-get install postfix
Please see appendix B for further details. BTW, if you plan to use Postfix you do not have to start (or stop) it, since this is already done by the start script of OpenEMM.
Also refer to 3.3 on Page 5
Download Java SE SDK from java.oracle.com
We installed SDK 8u112 Linux x64 on December 2016.
$ mkdir -p /opt/openemm
$ cp ~sammyfung/jdk-8u112-linux-x64.tar.gz /opt/openemm/
$ cd /opt/openemm
$ tar -xvzf jdk-8u112-linux-x64.tar.gz
$ ln -s jdk1.8.0_112 java
$ java/bin/java -version
java version “1.8.0_112”
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_112-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.112-b15, mixed mode)
Additionally, install JCE Java Cryptography Extension from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
$ apt-get install unzip
$ unzip ~sfung/jce_policy-8.zip
$ cp UnlimitedJCEPolicyJDK8/*.jar /opt/openemm/java/jre/lib/security
If you want to use an installed JDK, simply edit /home/openemm/bin/openemm.sh after the installation of the OpenEMM tarball and adjust the parameter JAVA_HOME accordingly.
Download Tomcat 8 from http://tomcat.apache.org and we installed Tomcat 8.5.8 on December 2016.
$ cd /opt/openemm/
$ tar -xvzf ~/apache-tomcat-8.5.8.tar.gz
$ ln -s apache-tomcat-8.5.8 tomcat
Let’s test installed Tomcat
$ export JAVA_HOME=/opt/openemm/java
$ cd tomcat
$ bin/startup.sh
Try http://hostname.domainname:8080 on your web browser.
$ bin/shutdown.sh
Installing OpenEMM
We skipped Part 6 Firewall setup.
Download OpenEMM from https://sourceforge.net/projects/openemm/files/
To use Postfix instead of Sendmail, OpenEMM 2015 R3 (or above) is required.
$ cd /home
$ mv openemm openemm-2015
$ ln -s openemm-2015 openemm
$ cd /home/openemm
$ mkdir -p /usr/share/doc/OpenEMM-2015
$ mv USR_SHARE/* /usr/share/doc/OpenEMM-2015
$ rm -r USR_SHARE
$ service mysql restart
$ cd /usr/share/doc/OpenEMM-2015
For new OpenEMM installation, to install database
$ mysqladmin -u root -p create openemm_cms
$ mysql -u root -p openemm_cms < openemm_cms-2015.sql
$ mysqladmin -u root -p create openemm
$ vim openemm-2015_R3.sql
According page 11 A), we change http://localhost:8080 to http://yourhostname.domainname:8080 for URL redirection. And replace empty string ” next to above URL to yourhostname.domainname to use mailloop. Save the SQL file and import to MySQL.
$ mysql -u root -p openemm < openemm-2015_R3.sql
$ vim /home/openemm/webapps/openemm/WEB-INF/classes/emm.properties
change system.url
$ vim /home/openemm/webapps/openemm/WEB-INF/classes/cms.properties
change cms.ccr.url
Starting OpenEMM
$ su – openemm
$ openemm.sh start
Tomcat check failure, I found issue should be permission denied
$ ls /opt/openemm/tomcat/bin/
ls: cannot open directory /opt/openemm/tomcat/bin/: Permission denied
I solved it with the following commands.
$ chown -R openemm.openemm /opt/openemm/tomcat
$ chown -R openemm.openemm /opt/openemm/apache-tomcat-8.5.8
Try to login OpenEMM again with default login name and password: admin / openemm
Please change the password of admin after successful login.
Notes: Sending to Yahoo
Error might occur when sending to Yahoo, adjusting email campaign setting might solve it.
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN3434.html
Notes: Reverse DNS (PTR record) and Postfix
Few email servers will receive from other email servers with hostname matching its PTR record. You can change the hostname at the PTR record of your Linode instance at Linode admin dashboard.
Alternatively, you can modify your hostname ($my_hostname) to match PTR record at Postfix main.cf config file.
