How To Install macromilter on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install macromilter on Fedora 34.
What is macromilter
Python based milter for Sendmail and Postfix MTA servers to check incoming e-mails for Microsoft Office attachments. If a Microsoft Office document is attached to the e-mail, it will be scanned for suspicious VBA macro code. Files with malicious macros are, depending on configuration, either removed and replaced by harmless text files or alternatively the whole e-mail will be rejected.
We can use yum or dnf to install macromilter on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install macromilter.
Install macromilter 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 macromilter using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install macromilter
Install macromilter 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 macromilter using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install macromilter
How To Uninstall macromilter on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the macromilter package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove macromilter
macromilter Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/logrotate.d
/etc/logrotate.d/macromilter
/etc/macromilter
/etc/macromilter/config.yaml
/run/macromilter
/usr/bin/macromilter
/usr/lib/systemd/system/macromilter.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/macromilter.conf
/usr/share/doc/macromilter
/usr/share/doc/macromilter/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/macromilter/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/macromilter
/usr/share/licenses/macromilter/LICENSE.md
/var/lib/macromilter
/var/log/macromilter
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install macromilter on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
