How To Install postgrey on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install postgrey on Fedora 34.
What is postgrey
Postgrey is a Postfix policy server implementing greylisting. When a request for delivery of a mail is received by Postfix via SMTP, the triplet CLIENT_IP / SENDER / RECIPIENT is built. If it is the first time that this triplet is seen, or if the triplet was first seen less than 5 minutes, then the mail gets rejected with a temporary error. Hopefully spammers or viruses will not try again later, as it is however required per RFC.
We can use yum or dnf to install postgrey on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install postgrey.
Install postgrey 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 postgrey using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install postgrey
Install postgrey 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 postgrey using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install postgrey
How To Uninstall postgrey on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the postgrey package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove postgrey
postgrey Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/postfix/postgrey_whitelist_clients
/etc/postfix/postgrey_whitelist_clients.local
/etc/postfix/postgrey_whitelist_recipients
/etc/sysconfig/postgrey
/usr/lib/systemd/system/postgrey.service
/usr/sbin/postgrey
/usr/sbin/postgreyreport
/usr/share/doc/postgrey
/usr/share/doc/postgrey/Changes
/usr/share/doc/postgrey/README
/usr/share/doc/postgrey/README.Fedora
/usr/share/doc/postgrey/README.exim
/usr/share/licenses/postgrey
/usr/share/licenses/postgrey/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/postgrey.8.gz
/var/spool/postfix/postgrey
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install postgrey on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
