How To Install postfix on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install postfix on CentOS 7.
What is postfix
Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL), TLS
We can use yum or dnf to install postfix on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install postfix.
Install postfix on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install postfix using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install postfix
Install postfix 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 postfix using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install postfix
How To Uninstall postfix on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the postfix package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove postfix
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install postfix on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
