How To Install dovecot-imapd on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-imapd on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is dovecot-imapd
dovecot-imapd is:
Dovecot is a mail server whose major goals are security and extreme reliability. It tries very hard to handle all error conditions and verify that all data is valid, making it nearly impossible to crash. It supports mbox/Maildir and its own dbox/mdbox formats, and should also be pretty fast, extensible, and portable.
This package contains the Dovecot IMAP server. Task: mail-server
Package: dovecot-imapd Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3 Priority: optional Section: mail Source: dovecot Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Dovecot Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 642 Provides: imap-server Depends: dovecot-core (= 1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3), ucf (>= 2.0020), libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.14), liblz4-1 (>= 0.0~r130), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Suggests: ufw Filename: pool/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 159792 MD5sum: 33c9bf5994c133045158a956f08f08c1 SHA1: e57b84b7c5f133d44887738be5534646f71736e5 SHA256: 94c99f8031aee8e8a99eab242ac80a02c21be552d197842d6b8e84e3ad2eb9d5 Homepage: http://dovecot.org/ Description-en: secure POP3/IMAP server - IMAP daemon Dovecot is a mail server whose major goals are security and extreme reliability. It tries very hard to handle all error conditions and verify that all data is valid, making it nearly impossible to crash. It supports mbox/Maildir and its own dbox/mdbox formats, and should also be pretty fast, extensible, and portable.
This package contains the Dovecot IMAP server. Task: mail-server
There are three methods to install dovecot-imapd on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dovecot-imapd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dovecot-imapd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dovecot-imapd
Install dovecot-imapd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dovecot-imapd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dovecot-imapd
Install dovecot-imapd Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install dovecot-imapd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dovecot-imapd
How To Uninstall dovecot-imapd on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the dovecot-imapd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dovecot-imapd
Uninstall dovecot-imapd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dovecot-imapd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dovecot-imapd
Remove dovecot-imapd Configurations and Data
To remove dovecot-imapd configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dovecot-imapd
Remove dovecot-imapd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dovecot-imapd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dovecot-imapd
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-imapd package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
