How To Install deletemail on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install deletemail on Fedora 34.
What is deletemail
deletemail is a non-interactive tool for removing mail which is older than a configurable number of days from one or more IMAP mailboxes. By default, mail which is not marked as seen on the server will not be deleted. If, for example, fetchmail is used for receiving mail from an IMAP server, deletemail might be useful, since fetchmail deletes mail either immediately or not at all. Thus, you could use fetchmails keep option (so that fetchmail never deletes anything) and let deletemail handle the removal of mail. Currently, the IMAP4 and IMAP4rev1 protocols are supported, optionally using SSL/TLS for secure IMAP connections.
We can use yum or dnf to install deletemail on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install deletemail.
Install deletemail 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 deletemail using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install deletemail
Install deletemail 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 deletemail using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install deletemail
How To Uninstall deletemail on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the deletemail package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove deletemail
deletemail Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/deletemail
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/13d459a0b7ed8a9fe4601cfcbe8a18e7b8f302
/usr/share/doc/deletemail
/usr/share/doc/deletemail/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/deletemail/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/deletemail/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/deletemail/README
/usr/share/doc/deletemail/TODO
/usr/share/doc/deletemail/deletemailrc.example
/usr/share/licenses/deletemail
/usr/share/licenses/deletemail/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/deletemail.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install deletemail on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.