How To Install dovecot-managesieved on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-managesieved
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is dovecot-managesieved
dovecot-managesieved 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 ManageSieve server.
There are three methods to install dovecot-managesieved
on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-managesieved 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-managesieved
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dovecot-managesieved
Install dovecot-managesieved Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dovecot-managesieved
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dovecot-managesieved
Install dovecot-managesieved 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-managesieved
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dovecot-managesieved
How To Uninstall dovecot-managesieved on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the dovecot-managesieved
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dovecot-managesieved
Uninstall dovecot-managesieved And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dovecot-managesieved
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dovecot-managesieved
Remove dovecot-managesieved Configurations and Data
To remove dovecot-managesieved
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dovecot-managesieved
Remove dovecot-managesieved configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dovecot-managesieved
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dovecot-managesieved
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-managesieved
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.