How To Install courier-imap-ssl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-imap-ssl
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is courier-imap-ssl
courier-imap-ssl is:
The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, TLS, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent, framework.
This package provided the SSL variant of the IMAP server. It now is a transitional package and can be safely removed.
There are three methods to install courier-imap-ssl
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install courier-imap-ssl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install courier-imap-ssl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install courier-imap-ssl
Install courier-imap-ssl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install courier-imap-ssl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install courier-imap-ssl
Install courier-imap-ssl Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install courier-imap-ssl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install courier-imap-ssl
How To Uninstall courier-imap-ssl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the courier-imap-ssl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove courier-imap-ssl
Uninstall courier-imap-ssl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall courier-imap-ssl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove courier-imap-ssl
Remove courier-imap-ssl Configurations and Data
To remove courier-imap-ssl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge courier-imap-ssl
Remove courier-imap-ssl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove courier-imap-ssl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge courier-imap-ssl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-imap-ssl
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.