How To Install ciderwebmail on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ciderwebmail on Ubuntu 22.04. ciderwebmail is IMAP webmail service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ciderwebmail on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is ciderwebmail

ciderwebmail is:

CiderWebmail is a modern, user friendly and maintenance free webmail application. It’s targeted at mailserver administrators who need to provide web access for their user’s mailboxes and individuals wanting to access their mailboxes via an always available web application.

It currently supports all the basic mail handling features one would expect from such an application:

  • Listing your emails with selectable sort order and grouping.
  • Moving emails between folders and deleting using drag & drop.
  • Displaying text and HTML emails even if their code is completely broken (which happens quite often in reality)
  • Keyboard bindings for switching through emails, moving, deleting, replying and forwarding.
  • Reply to and forward existing emails or write new emails, add attachments and have a copy saved in your “Sent” folder.

As an application written deep in the 21st century, CiderWebmail supports only IMAP mail servers.

It is recommended to use CiderWebmail with the Dovecot IMAP server. CiderWebmail deliberately does little internal caching for security reasons, so if used with an IMAP server less powerful than Dovecot you may benefit from connecting via imapproxy.

There are three methods to install ciderwebmail on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ciderwebmail Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ciderwebmail using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ciderwebmail

Install ciderwebmail Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ciderwebmail using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ciderwebmail

Install ciderwebmail Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ciderwebmail using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ciderwebmail

How To Uninstall ciderwebmail on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove ciderwebmail

Uninstall ciderwebmail And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ciderwebmail and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ciderwebmail

Remove ciderwebmail Configurations and Data

To remove ciderwebmail configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ciderwebmail

Remove ciderwebmail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ciderwebmail configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ciderwebmail

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ciderwebmail package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.