How To Install uw-imap on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install uw-imap on Rocky Linux 8. uw-imap is UW Server daemons for IMAP and POP network mail protocols

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install uw-imap on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `uw-imap`

The uw-imap package provides UW server daemons for both the IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) and POP (Post Office Protocol) mail access protocols. The POP protocol uses a “post office” machine to collect mail for users and allows users to download their mail to their local machine for reading. The IMAP protocol allows a user to read mail on a remote machine without downloading it to their local machine.

We can use yum or dnf to install uw-imap on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install uw-imap.

Install uw-imap 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 uw-imap using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install uw-imap

Install uw-imap 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 uw-imap using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install uw-imap

How To Uninstall uw-imap on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the uw-imap package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove uw-imap

uw-imap Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/pam.d/imap
/etc/pam.d/pop
/etc/pki/tls/certs/imapd.pem
/etc/pki/tls/certs/ipop3d.pem
/etc/xinetd.d/imap
/etc/xinetd.d/imaps
/etc/xinetd.d/ipop2
/etc/xinetd.d/ipop3
/etc/xinetd.d/pop3s
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/fdce3cdebc70f8d7c320871dc955bcf1983108
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/57f81f0afb6eed354e704493b07e5134016964
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/01598f36a396e4e415a4d8da4310fe9c4900be
/usr/sbin/imapd
/usr/sbin/ipop2d
/usr/sbin/ipop3d
/usr/share/doc/uw-imap
/usr/share/doc/uw-imap/SSLBUILD
/usr/share/man/man8/imapd.8uw.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipopd.8uw.gz

References

uw-imap website

Summary

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