How To Install offlineimap on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install offlineimap on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is offlineimap
offlineimap is:
OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify your e-mail reading. With OfflineIMAP, you can:
Read the same mailbox from multiple computers, and have your changes (deletions, etc.) be automatically reflected on all computers
Use various mail clients to read a single mail box
Read mail while offline (on a laptop) and have all changes synchronized when you get connected again
Read IMAP mail with mail readers that do not support IMAP
Use SSL (secure connections) to read IMAP mail even if your reader doesn’t support SSL
Synchronize your mail using a completely safe and fault-tolerant algorithm.
Customize which mailboxes to synchronize with regular expressions or lists.
Synchronize your mail two to four times faster than with other tools or other mail readers’ internal IMAP support.
In short, OfflineIMAP is a tool to let you read mail how YOU want to.
There are three methods to install offlineimap on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install offlineimap Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install offlineimap using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install offlineimap
Install offlineimap Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install offlineimap using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install offlineimap
Install offlineimap Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install offlineimap using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install offlineimap
How To Uninstall offlineimap on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the offlineimap package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove offlineimap
Uninstall offlineimap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall offlineimap and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove offlineimap
Remove offlineimap Configurations and Data
To remove offlineimap configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge offlineimap
Remove offlineimap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove offlineimap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge offlineimap
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install offlineimap package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
