How To Install postproof on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install postproof in Fedora 36. postproof is Mail abuse incident tool

Introduction

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

What is `postproof`

Collect messages from a Postfix mail queue and preserve them as incident.

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

Install postproof 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 postproof using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install postproof

Install postproof 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 postproof using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install postproof

How To Uninstall postproof on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove postproof

postproof Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/postproof
/usr/share/doc/postproof
/usr/share/doc/postproof/README
/usr/share/licenses/postproof
/usr/share/licenses/postproof/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/postproof.1.gz

References

postproof website

Summary

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