How To Install esmtp on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install esmtp on Fedora 34.
What is esmtp
ESMTP is a user configurable relay-only Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) with a sendmail-compatible syntax. It’s based on libESMTP supporting the AUTH (including the CRAM-MD5 and NTLM SASL mechanisms) and the StartTLS SMTP extensions.
We can use yum or dnf to install esmtp on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install esmtp.
Install esmtp 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 esmtp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install esmtp
Install esmtp 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 esmtp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install esmtp
How To Uninstall esmtp on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the esmtp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove esmtp
esmtp Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/esmtp
/usr/bin/esmtp-wrapper
/usr/bin/mailq
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/7228d2bdd1aba07187b2ea28692392bd781b26
/usr/lib/sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail
/usr/share/doc/esmtp
/usr/share/doc/esmtp/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/esmtp/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/esmtp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/esmtp/README
/usr/share/doc/esmtp/TODO
/usr/share/doc/esmtp/mutt-esmtp
/usr/share/doc/esmtp/sample.esmtprc
/usr/share/man/man1/esmtp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mailq.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/esmtprc.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install esmtp on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.