How To Install esmtp on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install esmtp on Rocky Linux 8. esmtp is User configurable send-only Mail Transfer Agent

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install esmtp on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `esmtp`

ESMTP is a user configurable relay-only Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) with a sendmail-compatible syntax. It’s based on libESMTP supporting the AUTH (including the CRAM-MD5 and NTLM SASL mechanisms) and the StartTLS SMTP extensions.

We can use yum or dnf to install esmtp on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install esmtp.

Install esmtp on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install esmtp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install esmtp

Install esmtp on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install esmtp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install esmtp

How To Uninstall esmtp on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the esmtp package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove esmtp

esmtp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/esmtp
/usr/bin/esmtp-wrapper
/usr/bin/mailq
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/1dba2990815aefca931e54e005e26f37376ef7
/usr/lib/sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail
/usr/share/doc/esmtp
/usr/share/doc/esmtp/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/esmtp/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/esmtp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/esmtp/README
/usr/share/doc/esmtp/TODO
/usr/share/doc/esmtp/mutt-esmtp
/usr/share/doc/esmtp/sample.esmtprc
/usr/share/man/man1/esmtp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mailq.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/esmtprc.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz

References

esmtp website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install esmtp on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.