How To Install mail-expire on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mail-expire
on Debian 11.
What is mail-expire
mail-expire is:
mail-expire is a tool which scans mail folders (Maildir or mbox files) for messages that are older than given maximum age and moves them to another (compressed) mbox file or just deletes them.
There are three methods to install mail-expire
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mail-expire Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mail-expire
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mail-expire
Install mail-expire Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mail-expire
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mail-expire
Install mail-expire 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mail-expire
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mail-expire
How To Uninstall mail-expire on Debian 11
To uninstall only the mail-expire
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mail-expire
Uninstall mail-expire And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mail-expire
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mail-expire
Remove mail-expire Configurations and Data
To remove mail-expire
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mail-expire
Remove mail-expire configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mail-expire
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mail-expire
Dependencies
mail-expire have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mail-expire
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.