How To Install courier-webadmin on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-webadmin on Kali Linux.
What is courier-webadmin
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 web-based administration and configuration tool for the Courier mail server is capable of changing the settings of the MTA, IMAP, POP and Webmail servers and the LDAP, MySQL and PostgreSQL authentication modules. Only the installed parts of the Courier mail server show up in the administration frontend.
There are three ways to install courier-webadmin 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-webadmin 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-webadmin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install courier-webadmin
Install courier-webadmin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install courier-webadmin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install courier-webadmin
Install courier-webadmin 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-webadmin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install courier-webadmin
How To Uninstall courier-webadmin on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the courier-webadmin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove courier-webadmin
Uninstall courier-webadmin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall courier-webadmin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove courier-webadmin
Remove courier-webadmin Configurations and Data
To remove courier-webadmin configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge courier-webadmin
Remove courier-webadmin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove courier-webadmin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge courier-webadmin
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-webadmin using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.