How To Install s-nail on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install s-nail on CentOS 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 CentOS 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 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 s-nail using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install s-nail
Install s-nail 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 s-nail using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install s-nail
How To Uninstall s-nail on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the s-nail package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove s-nail
s-nail Package Contents on CentOS 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
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install s-nail on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.