How To Install mimefilter on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is mimefilter

mimefilter is:

This program may be useful as a filter on a mailing list.

It strips every unwanted MIME part from a MIME compliant message, warning by email the original author about this, and outputs a MIME compliant cleaned message, to be further processed by a mailing list software.

You may find it useful if you don’t want certain attachments on your mailing lists, or if you want to allow just the text part from multipart/alternative messages, and so on. You can easily fine tune the list of allowed MIME types to suit your particular needs, using normal Perl regexps.

There are three methods to install mimefilter 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 mimefilter Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mimefilter

Install mimefilter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mimefilter

Install mimefilter 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 mimefilter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mimefilter

How To Uninstall mimefilter on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mimefilter

Uninstall mimefilter And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mimefilter

Remove mimefilter Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mimefilter

Remove mimefilter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mimefilter

Dependencies

mimefilter have the following dependencies:

• perl
• libmailtools-perl
• libmime-tools-perl

References

• mimefilter website

Summary

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