How To Install fail2ban-mail on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install fail2ban-mail on CentOS 7. fail2ban-mail is Mail actions for Fail2Ban

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fail2ban-mail on CentOS 7.

What is fail2ban-mail

This package installs Fail2Ban’s mail actions. These are an alternative to the default sendmail actions.

We can use yum or dnf to install fail2ban-mail on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fail2ban-mail.

Install fail2ban-mail on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install fail2ban-mail using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fail2ban-mail

Install fail2ban-mail 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 fail2ban-mail using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fail2ban-mail

How To Uninstall fail2ban-mail on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the fail2ban-mail package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fail2ban-mail

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fail2ban-mail on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.