How To Install sagator on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install sagator on Rocky Linux 8. sagator is Antivirus/anti-spam gateway for smtp server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sagator on Rocky Linux 8.

What is sagator

This program is an email antivirus/anti-spam gateway. It is an interface to the postfix, sendmail, or any other smtpd, which runs antivirus and/or spam checker. Its modular architecture can use any combination of antivirus/spam checker according to configuration. It has some internal checkers (string_scanner and regexp_scanner). Sagator can parse MIME mails and decompress archives, if it is configured so. Features * simple chroot support * modular antivirus/spam checker support o attach an intrascanner to another intrascanner or realscanner o combine intrascanners o combine realscanners o virus/spam level based scanners * database support o SQL logging o dynamic scanner (antivirus/anti-spam) configuration * daily reports for users * web quarantine accessible for all users * you don’t need any perl modules or any other modules, only python * you can return any quarantined mail to mailq/user mailbox * mailbox/maildir scanning and cleaning * smtp policy service (greylist) * nice statistics via WWW or MRTG * easy installation and configuration

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

Install sagator 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 sagator using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sagator

Install sagator 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 sagator using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sagator

How To Uninstall sagator on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the sagator package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sagator

sagator Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

References

Summary

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