How To Install sagator on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sagator on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sagator.
Install sagator 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 sagator using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sagator
Install sagator 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 sagator using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sagator
How To Uninstall sagator on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the sagator package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sagator
sagator Package Contents on CentOS 8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sagator on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
