How To Install fetchmail on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fetchmail
on CentOS 7.
What is fetchmail
Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended for use over on-demand TCP/IP links, like SLIP or PPP connections. Fetchmail supports every remote-mail protocol currently in use on the Internet (POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all IMAPs, ESMTP ETRN, IPv6, and IPSEC) for retrieval. Then Fetchmail forwards the mail through SMTP so you can read it through your favorite mail client. Install fetchmail if you need to retrieve mail over SLIP or PPP connections.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install fetchmail
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fetchmail.
Install fetchmail on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install fetchmail
using yum
by running the following command:
Install fetchmail 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 fetchmail
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall fetchmail on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the fetchmail
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fetchmail
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.