How To Install imapsync on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imapsync
on CentOS 7.
What is imapsync
imapsync is a tool for facilitating incremental recursive IMAP transfers from one mailbox to another. It is useful for mailbox migration, and reduces the amount of data transferred by only copying messages that are not present on both servers. Read, unread, and deleted flags are preserved, and the process can be stopped and resumed. The original messages can optionally be deleted after a successful transfer.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install imapsync
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install imapsync.
Install imapsync on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install imapsync
using yum
by running the following command:
Install imapsync 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 imapsync
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall imapsync on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the imapsync
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imapsync
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.