How To Install spampd on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spampd on Fedora 34.
What is spampd
Spampd is a program used within an e-mail delivery system to scan messages for possible Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE, aka spam) content. It uses SpamAssassin (SA) to do the actual message scanning. Spampd acts as a transparent SMTP/LMTP proxy between two mail servers, and during the transaction it passes the mail through SA. If SA decides the mail could be spam, then spampd will ask SA to add some headers and a report to the message indicating it’s spam and why.
We can use yum or dnf to install spampd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spampd.
Install spampd 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 spampd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spampd
Install spampd 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 spampd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spampd
How To Uninstall spampd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the spampd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spampd
spampd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/sysconfig/spampd
/usr/lib/systemd/system/spampd.service
/usr/sbin/spampd
/usr/share/doc/spampd
/usr/share/doc/spampd/README.systemd
/usr/share/doc/spampd/changelog.txt
/usr/share/doc/spampd/spampd.html
/usr/share/man/man8/spampd.8.gz
/var/spool/spampd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spampd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.