How To Install milter-greylist on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install milter-greylist on Rocky Linux 8. milter-greylist is Milter for greylisting, the next step in the spam control war

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.