How To Install uw-imap-utils on CentOS 8

uw-imap-utils is UW IMAP Utilities to make managing your email simpler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install uw-imap-utils on CentOS 8.

What is uw-imap-utils

This package contains some utilities for managing UW IMAP email,including * dmail * mailutil * mtest * tmail * mlock

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

Install uw-imap-utils 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-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install uw-imap-utils

Install uw-imap-utils 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-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install uw-imap-utils

How To Uninstall uw-imap-utils on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the uw-imap-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove uw-imap-utils

uw-imap-utils Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/dmail
/usr/bin/mailutil
/usr/bin/mtest
/usr/bin/tmail
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/e6b0151eca27019643fd29bca2ce535c3cfbc4
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/7a106ad4283d8f4dcdd51fa2777ac19b801335
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/f65016fce554f783916df2ca01546a15fb22d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/66df74ae603fc0ce76f06334aa69d745d37ae6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/917fc912b213e12227a4ac8b82edf277ca3b30
/usr/sbin/mlock
/usr/share/man/man1/dmail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mailutil.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tmail.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install uw-imap-utils on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.