How To Install spamass-milter on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spamass-milter on CentOS 8.
What is spamass-milter
A milter (Mail Filter) application that pipes incoming mail (including things received by rmail/UUCP) through SpamAssassin, a highly customizable spam filter. A milter-compatible MTA such as Sendmail or Postfix is required.
We can use yum or dnf to install spamass-milter on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spamass-milter.
Install spamass-milter 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 spamass-milter using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spamass-milter
Install spamass-milter 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 spamass-milter using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spamass-milter
How To Uninstall spamass-milter on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the spamass-milter package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spamass-milter
spamass-milter Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter
/run/spamass-milter
/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/44ce9ae6030d1689bc3fc9de62b355ec172dce
/usr/lib/systemd/system/spamass-milter-root.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/spamass-milter.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/spamass-milter.conf
/usr/sbin/spamass-milter
/usr/share/doc/spamass-milter
/usr/share/doc/spamass-milter/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/spamass-milter/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/spamass-milter/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/spamass-milter/README
/usr/share/man/man1/spamass-milter.1.gz
/var/lib/spamass-milter
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spamass-milter on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
