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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install dovecot using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dovecot
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install dovecot using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dovecot
How To Uninstall dovecot on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dovecot package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dovecot
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.