How To Install policyd-rate-limit on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install policyd-rate-limit on Debian 12.
What is policyd-rate-limit
policyd-rate-limit is:
policyd-rate-limit is a simple postfix policy daemon written in python3 allowing to limit the number of mails a user can send over time. Users are identified either via their sasl usernames or their ip addresses. Limitation rules are a list of couples (number of mails, number of seconds). If a user has sent more than number of mails in number of seconds, a configurable error is returned to the user.
There are three methods to install policyd-rate-limit on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install policyd-rate-limit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install policyd-rate-limit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install policyd-rate-limit
Install policyd-rate-limit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install policyd-rate-limit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install policyd-rate-limit
Install policyd-rate-limit 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install policyd-rate-limit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install policyd-rate-limit
How To Uninstall policyd-rate-limit on Debian 12
To uninstall only the policyd-rate-limit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove policyd-rate-limit
Uninstall policyd-rate-limit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall policyd-rate-limit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove policyd-rate-limit
Remove policyd-rate-limit Configurations and Data
To remove policyd-rate-limit configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge policyd-rate-limit
Remove policyd-rate-limit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove policyd-rate-limit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge policyd-rate-limit
Dependencies
policyd-rate-limit have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install policyd-rate-limit package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
