How To Install imapproxy on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imapproxy
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is imapproxy
imapproxy is:
IMAP Proxy proxies IMAP transactions between an IMAP client and an IMAP server. The general idea is that the client should never know that it is not talking to the real IMAP server while IMAP Proxy caches server connections.
IMAP Proxy was written to compensate for webmail clients that are unable to maintain persistent connections to an IMAP server. Most webmail clients need to log in to an IMAP server for nearly every single transaction. This behaviour can cause tragic performance problems on the IMAP server. IMAP Proxy tries to deal with this problem by leaving server connections open for a short time after a webmail client logs out. When the webmail client connects again, IMAP Proxy will determine if there is a cached connection available and reuse it if possible.
There are three methods to install imapproxy
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install imapproxy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install imapproxy
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install imapproxy
Install imapproxy Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install imapproxy
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install imapproxy
Install imapproxy Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install imapproxy
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install imapproxy
How To Uninstall imapproxy on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the imapproxy
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove imapproxy
Uninstall imapproxy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall imapproxy
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove imapproxy
Remove imapproxy Configurations and Data
To remove imapproxy
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge imapproxy
Remove imapproxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove imapproxy
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imapproxy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imapproxy
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.