How To Install s-nail on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install s-nail
on CentOS 7.
What is s-nail
S-nail provides a simple and friendly environment for sending and receiving mail. It is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX mailx(1) command, but is MIME capable and optionally offers extensions for line editing, S/MIME, SMTP and POP3, among others. S-nail divides incoming mail into its constituent messages and allows the user to deal with them in any order. It offers many commands and internal variables for manipulating messages and sending mail. It provides the user simple editing capabilities to ease the composition of outgoing messages, and increasingly powerful and reliable non-interactive scripting capabilities.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install s-nail
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install s-nail.
Install s-nail on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install s-nail
using yum
by running the following command:
Install s-nail 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 s-nail
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall s-nail on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the s-nail
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install s-nail
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.