How To Install s-nail on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install s-nail on Rocky Linux 8. s-nail is Environment for sending and receiving mail

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install s-nail on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `s-nail`

S-nail provides a simple and friendly environment for sending and receiving mail. It is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX mailx(1) command, but is MIME capable and optionally offers extensions for line editing, S/MIME, SMTP and POP3, among others. S-nail divides incoming mail into its constituent messages and allows the user to deal with them in any order. It offers many commands and internal variables for manipulating messages and sending mail. It provides the user simple editing capabilities to ease the composition of outgoing messages, and increasingly powerful and reliable non-interactive scripting capabilities.

We can use yum or dnf to install s-nail on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install s-nail.

Install s-nail 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 s-nail using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install s-nail

Install s-nail 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 s-nail using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install s-nail

How To Uninstall s-nail on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the s-nail package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove s-nail

s-nail Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/s-nail.rc
/usr/bin/Mail
/usr/bin/mail
/usr/bin/mailx
/usr/bin/mailx.s-nail
/usr/bin/nail
/usr/bin/s-nail
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/65
/usr/lib/.build-id/65/3d9380d3a771be8f8dad625f22612c2acf952b
/usr/share/doc/s-nail
/usr/share/doc/s-nail/README
/usr/share/licenses/s-nail
/usr/share/licenses/s-nail/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/Mail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mailx.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mailx.s-nail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/s-nail.1.gz

References

s-nail website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install s-nail on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.