How To Install imaptest on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imaptest on CentOS 7.
What is imaptest
ImapTest is a generic IMAP server compliancy tester that works with all IMAP servers. It supports stress testing with state tracking, scripted testing and benchmarking. When stress testing with state tracking ImapTest sends random commands to the server and verifies that server’s output looks correct. Using the scripted testing ImapTest runs a list of predefined scripted tests and verifies that server returns expected output. Examples and details are provided online at http
We can use yum or dnf to install imaptest on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install imaptest.
Install imaptest on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install imaptest using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install imaptest
Install imaptest 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 imaptest using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install imaptest
How To Uninstall imaptest on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the imaptest package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove imaptest
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imaptest on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
