How To Install up-imapproxy on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install up-imapproxy
on CentOS 7.
What is up-imapproxy
imapproxy was written to compensate for webmail clients that are unable to maintain persistent connections to an IMAP server. Most webmail clients need to log in to an IMAP server for nearly every single transaction. This behaviour can cause tragic performance problems on the IMAP server. imapproxy tries to deal with this problem by leaving server connections open for a short time after a webmail client logs out. When the webmail client connects again, imapproxy will determine if there’s a cached connection available and reuse it if possible.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install up-imapproxy
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install up-imapproxy.
Install up-imapproxy on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install up-imapproxy
using yum
by running the following command:
Install up-imapproxy 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 up-imapproxy
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall up-imapproxy on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the up-imapproxy
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install up-imapproxy
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.