How To Install davmail-server on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install davmail-server on Debian 12.
What is davmail-server
davmail-server is:
Ever wanted to get rid of Outlook ? DavMail is a POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP exchange gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client (e.g. Thunderbird with Lightning or Apple iCal) with an Exchange server, even from the internet or behind a firewall through Outlook Web Access. DavMail now includes an LDAP gateway to Exchange global address book and user personal contacts to allow recipient address completion in mail compose window and full calendar support with attendees free/busy display.
The main goal of DavMail is to provide standard compliant protocols in front of proprietary Exchange. This means LDAP for global address book, SMTP to send messages, IMAP to browse messages on the server in any folder, POP to retrieve inbox messages only, Caldav for calendar support and Carddav for personal contacts sync. Thus any standard compliant client can be used with Microsoft Exchange.
This binary package contains the headless server.
There are three methods to install davmail-server on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install davmail-server Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install davmail-server using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install davmail-server
Install davmail-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install davmail-server using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install davmail-server
Install davmail-server 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 davmail-server using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install davmail-server
How To Uninstall davmail-server on Debian 12
To uninstall only the davmail-server package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove davmail-server
Uninstall davmail-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall davmail-server and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove davmail-server
Remove davmail-server Configurations and Data
To remove davmail-server configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge davmail-server
Remove davmail-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove davmail-server configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge davmail-server
Dependencies
davmail-server have the following dependencies:
- init-system-helpers
- logrotate
- adduser
- default-jre-headless
- libcommons-codec-java
- libcommons-logging-java
- libhtmlcleaner-java
- libhttpclient-java
- libjackrabbit-java
- libjcifs-java
- libjettison-java
- libjna-java
- liblog4j1.2-java
- libmail-java
- libslf4j-java
- libstax2-api-java
- libwoodstox-java
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install davmail-server package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
