How To Install msmtp on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install msmtp
on CentOS 7.
What is msmtp
It forwards messages to an SMTP server which does the delivery. Features include * Sendmail compatible interface (command line options and exit codes). * Authentication methods PLAIN,LOGIN,CRAM-MD5,DIGEST-MD5,GSSAPI,and NTLM * TLS/SSL both in SMTP-over-SSL mode and in STARTTLS mode. * Fast SMTP implementation using command pipe-lining. * Support for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). * DSN (Delivery Status Notification) support. * RMQS (Remote Message Queue Starting) support (ETRN keyword). * IPv6 support.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install msmtp
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install msmtp.
Install msmtp on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install msmtp
using yum
by running the following command:
Install msmtp 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 msmtp
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall msmtp on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the msmtp
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install msmtp
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.