How To Install imapfilter on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imapfilter on CentOS 7.
What is imapfilter
IMAPFilter is a mail filtering utility. It connects to remote mail servers using the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), sends searching queries to the server and processes mailboxes based on the results. It can be used to delete, copy, move, flag, etc. messages residing in mailboxes at the same or different mail servers. The 4rev1 and 4 versions of the IMAP protocol are supported.
We can use yum or dnf to install imapfilter on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install imapfilter.
Install imapfilter on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install imapfilter using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install imapfilter
Install imapfilter 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 imapfilter using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install imapfilter
How To Uninstall imapfilter on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the imapfilter package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove imapfilter
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imapfilter on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.