How To Install courier-faxmail on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-faxmail on Kali Linux.
What is courier-faxmail
The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, TLS, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent, framework.
The courierfax module implements a faxmail gateway, which faxes a printed copy of an email message to the phone number specified in the email address (e.g. [email protected]).
There are three ways to install courier-faxmail on Kali Linux . We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install courier-faxmail Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install courier-faxmail using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install courier-faxmail
Install courier-faxmail Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install courier-faxmail using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install courier-faxmail
Install courier-faxmail 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 Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install courier-faxmail using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install courier-faxmail
How To Uninstall courier-faxmail on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the courier-faxmail package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove courier-faxmail
Uninstall courier-faxmail And Its Dependencies
To uninstall courier-faxmail and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove courier-faxmail
Remove courier-faxmail Configurations and Data
To remove courier-faxmail configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge courier-faxmail
Remove courier-faxmail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove courier-faxmail configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge courier-faxmail
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-faxmail using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.