How To Install procmail on CentOS 8

procmail is Mail processing program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install procmail on CentOS 8.

What is procmail

Procmail can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort your incoming mail into separate folders/files (real convenient when subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritising your mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival (e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation for different types of mail) or selectively forward certain incoming mail automatically to someone.

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

Install procmail on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install procmail using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install procmail

Install procmail on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install procmail using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install procmail

How To Uninstall procmail on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove procmail

procmail Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/formail
/usr/bin/lockfile
/usr/bin/mailstat
/usr/bin/procmail
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/96
/usr/lib/.build-id/96/934488c840058043443b54189ff5b1ad038e2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/960421794f07bdf746b284641cbf02e75af141
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/12cf4625d50164f7c8605f5784f9915371113d
/usr/share/doc/procmail
/usr/share/doc/procmail/Artistic
/usr/share/doc/procmail/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/procmail/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/procmail/FEATURES
/usr/share/doc/procmail/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/procmail/KNOWN_BUGS
/usr/share/doc/procmail/QuickStart
/usr/share/doc/procmail/README
/usr/share/doc/procmail/README.Maildir
/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples
/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples/1procmailrc
/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples/1rmail
/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples/2procmailrc
/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples/2rmail
/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples/3procmailrc
/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples/3rmail
/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples/advanced
/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples/dirname
/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples/forward
/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples/local_procmail_lmtp.m4
/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples/mailstat
/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples/procmail-rpm.spec
/usr/share/doc/procmail/telsas_procmailrc
/usr/share/man/man1/formail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lockfile.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mailstat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/procmail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/procmailex.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/procmailrc.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/procmailsc.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install procmail on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.