How To Install uw-imap on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install uw-imap on CentOS 8.
What is uw-imap
The uw-imap package provides UW server daemons for both the IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) and POP (Post Office Protocol) mail access protocols. The POP protocol uses a “post office” machine to collect mail for users and allows users to download their mail to their local machine for reading. The IMAP protocol allows a user to read mail on a remote machine without downloading it to their local machine.
We can use yum or dnf to install uw-imap on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install uw-imap.
Install uw-imap 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 uw-imap using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install uw-imap
Install uw-imap 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 uw-imap using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install uw-imap
How To Uninstall uw-imap on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the uw-imap package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove uw-imap
uw-imap Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/pam.d/imap
/etc/pam.d/pop
/etc/pki/tls/certs/imapd.pem
/etc/pki/tls/certs/ipop3d.pem
/etc/xinetd.d/imap
/etc/xinetd.d/imaps
/etc/xinetd.d/ipop2
/etc/xinetd.d/ipop3
/etc/xinetd.d/pop3s
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/fdce3cdebc70f8d7c320871dc955bcf1983108
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/57f81f0afb6eed354e704493b07e5134016964
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/01598f36a396e4e415a4d8da4310fe9c4900be
/usr/sbin/imapd
/usr/sbin/ipop2d
/usr/sbin/ipop3d
/usr/share/doc/uw-imap
/usr/share/doc/uw-imap/SSLBUILD
/usr/share/man/man8/imapd.8uw.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipopd.8uw.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install uw-imap on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.