How To Install courier-imap on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-imap
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is courier-imap
courier-imap is:
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.
This package provides an IMAP server that accesses email stored in Maildirs format mailboxes. This server has an extremely small footprint and provides shared and virtual shared folders.
IMAP over TLS is handled by the regular IMAP daemon in conjunction with the TLS wrapper.
There are three methods to install courier-imap
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 courier-imap 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-imap
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install courier-imap
Install courier-imap Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install courier-imap
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install courier-imap
Install courier-imap 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 courier-imap
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install courier-imap
How To Uninstall courier-imap on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the courier-imap
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove courier-imap
Uninstall courier-imap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall courier-imap
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove courier-imap
Remove courier-imap Configurations and Data
To remove courier-imap
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge courier-imap
Remove courier-imap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove courier-imap
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge courier-imap
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-imap
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.