How To Install mailman on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mailman on AlmaLinux 8.
What is mailman
Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists, much like Majordomo and Smartmail. Unlike most similar products, Mailman gives each mailing list a webpage, and allows users to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. over the Web. Even the list manager can administer his or her list entirely from the Web. Mailman also integrates most things people want to do with mailing lists, including archiving, mail <-> news gateways, and so on. Documentation can be found in When the package has finished installing, you will need to perform some additional installation steps, these are described in /usr/share/doc/mailman/INSTALL.REDHAT
We can use yum or dnf to install mailman on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mailman.
Install mailman on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install mailman using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mailman
Install mailman on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install mailman using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mailman
How To Uninstall mailman on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the mailman package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mailman
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mailman on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
