How To Install sendmail-milter on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail-milter on Rocky Linux 8. sendmail-milter is The sendmail milter library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail-milter on Rocky Linux 8.

What is sendmail-milter

The sendmail Mail Filter API (Milter) is designed to allow third-party programs access to mail messages as they are being processed in order to filter meta-information and content. This package includes the milter shared library.

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

Install sendmail-milter 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 sendmail-milter using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sendmail-milter

Install sendmail-milter 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 sendmail-milter using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sendmail-milter

How To Uninstall sendmail-milter on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the sendmail-milter package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sendmail-milter

sendmail-milter Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/e73bec09b80a8db1af1d845583170c3becad75
/usr/lib64/libmilter.so.1.0
/usr/lib64/libmilter.so.1.0.1
/usr/share/doc/sendmail-milter
/usr/share/doc/sendmail-milter/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.libmilter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/ece05c720621f62ab2a80c20218ec4a8b3c43f
/usr/lib/libmilter.so.1.0
/usr/lib/libmilter.so.1.0.1
/usr/share/doc/sendmail-milter
/usr/share/doc/sendmail-milter/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.libmilter

References

Summary

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