How To Install mailman on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mailman
on CentOS 7.
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-2.1.15/INSTALL.REDHAT
We can use yum
or dnf
to install mailman
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mailman.
Install mailman on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install mailman
using yum
by running the following command:
Install mailman 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 mailman
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall mailman on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the mailman
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mailman
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.