How To Install milter-greylist on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install milter-greylist
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is milter-greylist
Greylisting is a new method of blocking significant amounts of spam at the mailserver level, but without resorting to heavyweight statistical analysis or other heuristical (and error-prone) approaches. Consequently, implementations are fairly lightweight, and may even decrease network traffic and processor load on your mailserver. This package provides a greylist filter for sendmail’s milter API.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install milter-greylist
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install milter-greylist.
Install milter-greylist on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install milter-greylist
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install milter-greylist
Install milter-greylist on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install milter-greylist
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install milter-greylist
How To Uninstall milter-greylist on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the milter-greylist
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove milter-greylist
milter-greylist Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/mail/greylist.conf
/run/milter-greylist
/run/milter-greylist/milter-greylist.sock
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/090c91e44f207966da0e0e42fcffb5247484f1
/usr/lib/systemd/system/milter-greylist.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/milter-greylist.conf
/usr/sbin/milter-greylist
/usr/share/doc/milter-greylist
/usr/share/doc/milter-greylist/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/milter-greylist/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/milter-greylist/milter-greylist.m4
/usr/share/licenses/milter-greylist
/usr/share/licenses/milter-greylist/README
/usr/share/man/man5/greylist.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/milter-greylist.8.gz
/var/lib/milter-greylist
/var/lib/milter-greylist/db
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install milter-greylist
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.