How To Install sortmail on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sortmail on Debian 12.
What is sortmail
sortmail is:
Sortmail is a simple mail sorter you can use in your .forward to sort your mail into folders automatically, delete unwanted mail, etc.
Sortmail process incoming email, classify it, and process it accordingly. Sortmail can handle incoming email as it arrives, or download from a POP server. Sortmail is easier to configure than procmail, and can replace fetchmail. Sortmail uses config files which are similar to rn KILLfiles.
Full features list:
- Process email delivered via SMPT, or downloaded via POP or IMAP.
- Post-process an existing mail folder.
- Select messages based on specific header lines, based on the entire header, or even the message body.
- File messages to folders, send to inbox, forward to other email addresses, append to digest, pipe through shell command or just junk them.
- Regular expression matching or IP address range matching.
- Full boolean expressions of any complexity.
- Basic mailing-list processing functionality.
There are three methods to install sortmail 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 sortmail Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sortmail using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sortmail
Install sortmail Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sortmail using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sortmail
Install sortmail 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 sortmail using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sortmail
How To Uninstall sortmail on Debian 12
To uninstall only the sortmail package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sortmail
Uninstall sortmail And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sortmail and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sortmail
Remove sortmail Configurations and Data
To remove sortmail configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sortmail
Remove sortmail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sortmail configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sortmail
Dependencies
sortmail have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sortmail package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
