How To Install courier-pop on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-pop on Debian 11.
What is courier-pop
courier-pop 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 provide the POP3 daemon for Courier. It only supports email stored in the Maildir format.
POP3 over TLS is handled by the regular POP3 daemon from in conjunction with the TLS wrapper.
There are three methods to install courier-pop on Debian 11. 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-pop 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-pop using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install courier-pop
Install courier-pop Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install courier-pop using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install courier-pop
Install courier-pop 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install courier-pop using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install courier-pop
How To Uninstall courier-pop on Debian 11
To uninstall only the courier-pop package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove courier-pop
Uninstall courier-pop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall courier-pop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove courier-pop
Remove courier-pop Configurations and Data
To remove courier-pop configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge courier-pop
Remove courier-pop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove courier-pop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge courier-pop
Dependencies
courier-pop have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-pop package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.