How To Install macromilter on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install macromilter on CentOS 7.
What is macromilter
Python based milter for Sendmail and Postfix MTA servers to check incoming e-mails for Microsoft Office attachments. If a Microsoft Office document is attached to the e-mail, it will be scanned for suspicious VBA macro code. Files with malicious macros are, depending on configuration, either removed and replaced by harmless text files or alternatively the whole e-mail will be rejected.
We can use yum or dnf to install macromilter on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install macromilter.
Install macromilter on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install macromilter using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install macromilter
Install macromilter 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 macromilter using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install macromilter
How To Uninstall macromilter on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the macromilter package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove macromilter
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install macromilter on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.