How To Install sendmail-milter on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail-milter on CentOS 7. sendmail-milter is The sendmail milter library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail-milter on CentOS 7.

What is sendmail-milter

The sendmail Mail Filter API (Milter) is designed to allow third-party programs access to mail messages as they are being processed in order to filter meta-information and content. This package includes the milter shared library. The sendmail Mail Filter API (Milter) is designed to allow third-party programs access to mail messages as they are being processed in order to filter meta-information and content. This package includes the milter shared library.

We can use yum or dnf to install sendmail-milter on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sendmail-milter.

Install sendmail-milter on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install sendmail-milter using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sendmail-milter

Install sendmail-milter 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 sendmail-milter using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sendmail-milter

How To Uninstall sendmail-milter on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the sendmail-milter package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sendmail-milter

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail-milter on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.