How To Install dovecot on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot
on CentOS 7.
What is dovecot
Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server. It supports mail in either of maildir or mbox formats. The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are in their subpackages. Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server. It supports mail in either of maildir or mbox formats. The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are in their subpackages.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install dovecot
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dovecot.
Install dovecot on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dovecot
using yum
by running the following command:
Install dovecot on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dovecot
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall dovecot on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dovecot
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.