How To Install macromilter on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install macromilter in Fedora 36. macromilter is Milter to check mails for suspicious Microsoft VBA macro code

Introduction

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

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install macromilter.

Install macromilter 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 macromilter using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install macromilter

Install macromilter 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 macromilter using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install macromilter

How To Uninstall macromilter on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove macromilter

macromilter Package Contents on Fedora 36

/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 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).