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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install up-imapproxy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install up-imapproxy
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install up-imapproxy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install up-imapproxy
How To Uninstall up-imapproxy on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the up-imapproxy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove up-imapproxy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install up-imapproxy on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
