How To Install mpop on Fedora 34

mpop is Client for receiving mail from POP3 mailboxes

Introduction

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

What is mpop

mpop is a small and fast POP3 client. Features include mail filtering, delivery to mbox files, maildir folders or a mail delivery agent, a very fast POP3 implementation, many authentication methods, good TLS/SSL support, IPv6 support, and more.

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

Install mpop 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 mpop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mpop

Install mpop 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 mpop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mpop

How To Uninstall mpop on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove mpop

mpop Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/mpop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/e8dbee034026763608752226317997560e4ff7
/usr/share/doc/mpop
/usr/share/doc/mpop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/mpop/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/mpop/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/mpop/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/mpop/README
/usr/share/doc/mpop/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/mpop/mpoprc.example
/usr/share/info/mpop.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/mpop
/usr/share/licenses/mpop/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/mpop.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/mpop.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/mpop.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/mpop.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/mpop.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/mpop.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/mpop.1.gz

References

Summary

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