How To Install davmail on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install davmail on Debian 11.
What is davmail
davmail is:
Ever wanted to get rid of Outlook ? DavMail is a POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP exchange gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client (e.g. Thunderbird with Lightning or Apple iCal) with an Exchange server, even from the internet or behind a firewall through Outlook Web Access. DavMail now includes an LDAP gateway to Exchange global address book and user personal contacts to allow recipient address completion in mail compose window and full calendar support with attendees free/busy display.
The main goal of DavMail is to provide standard compliant protocols in front of proprietary Exchange. This means LDAP for global address book, SMTP to send messages, IMAP to browse messages on the server in any folder, POP to retrieve inbox messages only, Caldav for calendar support and Carddav for personal contacts sync. Thus any standard compliant client can be used with Microsoft Exchange.
DavMail gateway is implemented in java and should run on any platform. Releases are tested on Windows, Linux (Ubuntu) and Mac OSX. Tested successfully with the Iphone (gateway running on a server).
There are three methods to install davmail on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install davmail Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install davmail using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install davmail
Install davmail Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install davmail using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install davmail
Install davmail 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 davmail using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install davmail
How To Uninstall davmail on Debian 11
To uninstall only the davmail package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove davmail
Uninstall davmail And Its Dependencies
To uninstall davmail and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove davmail
Remove davmail Configurations and Data
To remove davmail configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge davmail
Remove davmail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove davmail configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge davmail
Dependencies
davmail have the following dependencies:
- init-system-helpers
- lsb-base
- logrotate
- adduser
- default-jre-headless
- jarwrapper
- libcommons-codec-java
- libcommons-httpclient-java
- libcommons-logging-java
- libhtmlcleaner-java
- libhttpclient-java
- libjackrabbit-java
- libjcifs-java
- libjettison-java
- liblog4j1.2-java
- libmail-java
- libservlet-api-java
- libslf4j-java
- libstax2-api-java
- libwoodstox-java
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install davmail package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
