How To Install milter-regex on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install milter-regex on Rocky Linux 8. milter-regex is Milter plug-in for regular expression filtering

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install milter-regex on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `milter-regex`

Milter-regex is a milter based filter that makes it possible to filter emails using regular expressions.

We can use yum or dnf to install milter-regex on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install milter-regex.

Install milter-regex on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install milter-regex using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install milter-regex

Install milter-regex on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install milter-regex using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install milter-regex

How To Uninstall milter-regex on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the milter-regex package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove milter-regex

milter-regex Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/mail/milter-regex.conf
/etc/sysconfig/milter-regex
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/201e8c54b9968226378df16fa985488f9edea2
/usr/lib/systemd/system/milter-regex.service
/usr/sbin/milter-regex
/usr/share/licenses/milter-regex
/usr/share/licenses/milter-regex/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/milter-regex.8.gz
/var/spool/milter-regex
/var/spool/milter-regex/sock

References

milter-regex website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install milter-regex on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.