How To Install imapproxy on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imapproxy on Kali Linux.
What is imapproxy
imapproxy is:
IMAP Proxy proxies IMAP transactions between an IMAP client and an IMAP server. The general idea is that the client should never know that it is not talking to the real IMAP server while IMAP Proxy caches server connections.
IMAP Proxy 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. IMAP Proxy 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, IMAP Proxy will determine if there is a cached connection available and reuse it if possible.
There are three methods to install imapproxy on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install imapproxy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install imapproxy using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install imapproxyInstall imapproxy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install imapproxy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install imapproxyInstall imapproxy Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install imapproxy using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install imapproxyHow To Uninstall imapproxy on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the imapproxy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove imapproxyUninstall imapproxy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall imapproxy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove imapproxyRemove imapproxy Configurations and Data
To remove imapproxy configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge imapproxyRemove imapproxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove imapproxy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imapproxyDependencies
imapproxy have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imapproxy package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
