How To Install amavis on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install amavis on Fedora 34.
What is amavis
amavis is a high-performance and reliable interface between mailer (MTA) and one or more content checkers Mail reliability, portability and maintainability. It talks to MTA via (E)SMTP or LMTP, or by using helper programs. No timing gaps exist in the design which could cause a mail loss.
We can use yum or dnf to install amavis on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install amavis.
Install amavis on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install amavis using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install amavis
Install amavis on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install amavis using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install amavis
How To Uninstall amavis on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the amavis package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove amavis
amavis Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/amavisd
/etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf
/etc/clamd.d
/etc/clamd.d/amavisd.conf
/run/amavisd
/run/clamd.amavisd
/usr/bin/amavisd-agent
/usr/bin/amavisd-nanny
/usr/bin/amavisd-release
/usr/bin/amavisd-signer
/usr/bin/amavisd-submit
/usr/lib/systemd/system/amavisd.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/amavisd.conf
/usr/sbin/amavisd
/usr/share/licenses/amavis
/usr/share/licenses/amavis/LICENSE
/var/spool/amavisd
/var/spool/amavisd/db
/var/spool/amavisd/quarantine
/var/spool/amavisd/tmp
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install amavis on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
