How To Install perdition on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perdition on CentOS 7.
What is perdition
Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular based database access. ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression and NIS modules ship with the distribution. The API for modules is open allowing arbitrary modules to be written to allow access to any data store. Perdition can be used to mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts. Integrate different mail systems together. Migrate between different email infrastructure. And in firewall applications.
We can use yum or dnf to install perdition on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perdition.
Install perdition on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install perdition using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perdition
Install perdition 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install perdition using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perdition
How To Uninstall perdition on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the perdition package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perdition
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perdition on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
