How To Install deletemail on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install deletemail in Fedora 36. deletemail is A non-interactive tool for deleting mails

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install deletemail on Fedora 36.

What is deletemail

deletemail is a non-interactive tool for removing mail which is older than a configurable number of days from one or more IMAP mailboxes. By default, mail which is not marked as seen on the server will not be deleted. If, for example, fetchmail is used for receiving mail from an IMAP server, deletemail might be useful, since fetchmail deletes mail either immediately or not at all. Thus, you could use fetchmails keep option (so that fetchmail never deletes anything) and let deletemail handle the removal of mail. Currently, the IMAP4 and IMAP4rev1 protocols are supported, optionally using SSL/TLS for secure IMAP connections.

We can use yum or dnf to install deletemail on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install deletemail.

Install deletemail on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install deletemail using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install deletemail

Install deletemail on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install deletemail using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install deletemail

How To Uninstall deletemail on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove deletemail

deletemail Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/deletemail
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/849d53b68e8b7ef95954c1a35249dff6d5fccb
/usr/share/doc/deletemail
/usr/share/doc/deletemail/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/deletemail/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/deletemail/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/deletemail/README
/usr/share/doc/deletemail/TODO
/usr/share/doc/deletemail/deletemailrc.example
/usr/share/licenses/deletemail
/usr/share/licenses/deletemail/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/deletemail.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install deletemail on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).