How To Install imapproxy on Debian 10

Learn how to install imapproxy on Debian 10 with this tutorial. imapproxy is IMAP protocol proxy

Introduction

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

What is imapproxy

imapproxy is:

IMAP Proxy proxies IMAP transactions between an IMAP client and an IMAP server. The general idea is that the client should never know that it is not talking to the real IMAP server while IMAP Proxy caches server connections.

IMAP Proxy was written to compensate for webmail clients that are unable to maintain persistent connections to an IMAP server. Most webmail clients need to log in to an IMAP server for nearly every single transaction. This behaviour can cause tragic performance problems on the IMAP server. IMAP Proxy tries to deal with this problem by leaving server connections open for a short time after a webmail client logs out. When the webmail client connects again, IMAP Proxy will determine if there is a cached connection available and reuse it if possible.

There are three methods to install imapproxy 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 imapproxy Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install imapproxy

Install imapproxy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install imapproxy

Install imapproxy 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 imapproxy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install imapproxy

How To Uninstall imapproxy on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove imapproxy

Uninstall imapproxy And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove imapproxy

Remove imapproxy Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge imapproxy

Remove imapproxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imapproxy

Dependencies

imapproxy have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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