How To Install bogofilter on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter on CentOS 7.
What is bogofilter
Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of “good” and “bad” words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail.
We can use yum or dnf to install bogofilter on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bogofilter.
Install bogofilter on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bogofilter using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bogofilter
Install bogofilter on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bogofilter using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bogofilter
How To Uninstall bogofilter on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the bogofilter package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bogofilter
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.