How To Install mailutils on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mailutils on Kali Linux.

What is mailutils

mailutils is:

GNU Mailutils is a rich and powerful protocol-independent mail framework. It contains a series of useful mail libraries, clients, and servers.

This package contains the GNU mailutils versions of dotlock, frm, from, mail, messages, mimeview, movemail, readmsg and sieve. They are capable of speaking POP3, IMAP, mbox, MH, Maildir and dotmail.

dotlock – lock mail spool files. frm – display From: lines. from – display from and subject. mail – the standard /bin/mail interface, mail sender and reader. messages – count the number of messages in a mailbox. mimeview – display files, using mailcap mechanism. movemail – move messages across mailboxes. readmsg – extract selected messages from a mailbox. sieve – a mail filtering tool.

There are three methods to install mailutils on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mailutils Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mailutils using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mailutils

Install mailutils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mailutils using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mailutils

Install mailutils Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install mailutils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mailutils

How To Uninstall mailutils on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the mailutils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mailutils

Uninstall mailutils And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mailutils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mailutils

Remove mailutils Configurations and Data

To remove mailutils configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mailutils

Remove mailutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mailutils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mailutils

Dependencies

mailutils have the following dependencies:

• mailutils-common

References

• mailutils website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mailutils package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.