How To Install dovecot-submissiond on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-submissiond on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is dovecot-submissiond
dovecot-submissiond 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 Mail Submission Agent which implements a basic SMTP submission service with BURL support.
Package: dovecot-submissiond Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3 Priority: optional Section: universe/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: 209 Depends: dovecot-core (= 1:2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3), ucf (>= 2.0020), libc6 (>= 2.4) Breaks: dovecot-submission (« 1:2.3.1-2~) Replaces: dovecot-submission (« 1:2.3.1-2~) Filename: pool/universe/d/dovecot/dovecot-submissiond_2.3.7.2-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 47348 MD5sum: b5d019348348705bab8ed928f37aa147 SHA1: 303a75d590cf0f73549f8234b816289dadccea2c SHA256: 314998c0c4b9db98b3cb450cd7d63edbaaf0905c3d15d744dd9e0bcfef015cac Homepage: http://dovecot.org/ Description-en: secure POP3/IMAP server - mail submission agent 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 Mail Submission Agent which implements a basic SMTP submission service with BURL support.
There are three methods to install dovecot-submissiond 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-submissiond 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-submissiond using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dovecot-submissiond
Install dovecot-submissiond Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dovecot-submissiond using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dovecot-submissiond
Install dovecot-submissiond 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-submissiond using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dovecot-submissiond
How To Uninstall dovecot-submissiond on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the dovecot-submissiond package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dovecot-submissiond
Uninstall dovecot-submissiond And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dovecot-submissiond and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dovecot-submissiond
Remove dovecot-submissiond Configurations and Data
To remove dovecot-submissiond configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dovecot-submissiond
Remove dovecot-submissiond configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dovecot-submissiond configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dovecot-submissiond
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-submissiond package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
