How To Install sendmail-milter.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail-milter.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sendmail-milter.x86_64 is The sendmail milter library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail-milter.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `sendmail-milter.x86_64`

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 to install sendmail-milter.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sendmail-milter.x86_64.

Install sendmail-milter.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install sendmail-milter.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sendmail-milter.x86_64

How To Uninstall sendmail-milter.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the sendmail-milter.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove sendmail-milter.x86_64

sendmail-milter.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libmilter.so.1.0
/usr/lib64/libmilter.so.1.0.1
/usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.14.7/README.libmilter
/usr/share/doc/sendmail-milter-8.14.7
/usr/share/doc/sendmail-milter-8.14.7/LICENSE

References

sendmail-milter.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail-milter.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.