How To Install mimefilter on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mimefilter on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is mimefilter
mimefilter is:
This program may be useful as a filter on a mailing list.
It strips every unwanted MIME part from a MIME compliant message, warning by email the original author about this, and outputs a MIME compliant cleaned message, to be further processed by a mailing list software.
You may find it useful if you don’t want certain attachments on your mailing lists, or if you want to allow just the text part from multipart/alternative messages, and so on. You can easily fine tune the list of allowed MIME types to suit your particular needs, using normal Perl regexps.
There are three methods to install mimefilter on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mimefilter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mimefilter using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mimefilter
Install mimefilter Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mimefilter using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mimefilter
Install mimefilter 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 mimefilter using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mimefilter
How To Uninstall mimefilter on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the mimefilter package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mimefilter
Uninstall mimefilter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mimefilter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mimefilter
Remove mimefilter Configurations and Data
To remove mimefilter configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mimefilter
Remove mimefilter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mimefilter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mimefilter
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mimefilter package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
