How To Install up-imapproxy on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install up-imapproxy on Rocky Linux 8. up-imapproxy is University of Pittsburgh IMAP Proxy

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install up-imapproxy on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install up-imapproxy.

Install up-imapproxy on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install up-imapproxy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install up-imapproxy

Install up-imapproxy on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install up-imapproxy

How To Uninstall up-imapproxy on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the up-imapproxy package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove up-imapproxy

up-imapproxy Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/imapproxy.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/4b04976974f7699cf9f7c167cae13892000640
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/93a8849c63d0066ff0060dbacce3db2908e687
/usr/lib/systemd/system/imapproxy.service
/usr/sbin/in.imapproxyd
/usr/sbin/pimpstat
/usr/share/doc/up-imapproxy
/usr/share/doc/up-imapproxy/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/up-imapproxy/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/up-imapproxy/README
/usr/share/doc/up-imapproxy/README.ssl
/usr/share/doc/up-imapproxy/copyright
/var/lib/imapproxy

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install up-imapproxy on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.