How To Install spamass-milter on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spamass-milter on Debian 9.
What is spamass-milter
spamass-milter is:
A milter used to filter mail through spamassassin (spamc) early in the delivery process. Enables site wide filtering through spamassassin without speed penalties incured by setting up and tearing down procmail processes for each e-mail.
Will work with sendmail, postfix, or any other MTA which can use milters.
- Administrator (or user) specified rejection threshold
- User specific spamassassin settings
- Header-only modification
There are three methods to install spamass-milter on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install spamass-milter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spamass-milter using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spamass-milter
Install spamass-milter Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spamass-milter using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spamass-milter
Install spamass-milter 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 spamass-milter using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spamass-milter
How To Uninstall spamass-milter on Debian 9
To uninstall only the spamass-milter package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spamass-milter
Uninstall spamass-milter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spamass-milter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spamass-milter
Remove spamass-milter Configurations and Data
To remove spamass-milter configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spamass-milter
Remove spamass-milter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spamass-milter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spamass-milter
Dependencies
spamass-milter have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spamass-milter package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.