How To Install bley on Debian 10

Learn how to install bley on Debian 10 with this tutorial. bley is intelligent greylisting daemon for Postfix and Exim

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bley on Debian 10.

What is bley

bley is:

bley uses various tests (incl. RBL and SPF) to decide whether a sender should be greylisted or not, thus mostly eliminating the usual greylisting delay while still filtering most of the spam.

There are three methods to install bley on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install bley Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bley using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bley

Install bley Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bley using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bley

Install bley Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install bley using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bley

How To Uninstall bley on Debian 10

To uninstall only the bley package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bley

Uninstall bley And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bley and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bley

Remove bley Configurations and Data

To remove bley configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bley

Remove bley configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bley configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bley

Dependencies

bley have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bley package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.