How To Install email2trac on Fedora 34

email2trac is Utilities for converting emails to trac tickets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install email2trac on Fedora 34.

What is email2trac

This is a release of the SARA package email2trac that contains utilities that we use to convert emails to trac tickets. The initial setup was made by Daniel Lundin from Edgewall Software. SARA has extend the initial setup, with the following extensions * HTML message conversion * Attachments * Tickets can be updated via email * Use command-line options * Configuration file to control the behavior. * Unicode support * SPAM detection * Workflow support * FullBlogPlugin support * DiscussionPlugin support

We can use yum or dnf to install email2trac on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install email2trac.

Install email2trac 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 email2trac using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install email2trac

Install email2trac 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 email2trac using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install email2trac

How To Uninstall email2trac on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the email2trac package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove email2trac

email2trac Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/email2trac.conf
/usr/bin/delete_spam
/usr/bin/email2trac
/usr/bin/run_email2trac
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/9660d27f41ee53fc61107290f680b7612b497c
/usr/share/doc/email2trac
/usr/share/doc/email2trac/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/email2trac/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/email2trac/NOTICE
/usr/share/doc/email2trac/README
/usr/share/licenses/email2trac
/usr/share/licenses/email2trac/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install email2trac on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.