How To Install interimap on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install interimap on Ubuntu 22.04. interimap is Fast bidirectional synchronization for QRESYNC-capable IMAP servers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install interimap on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is interimap

interimap is:

InterIMAP performs stateful bi-directional synchronization between two IMAP4rev1 servers. Compared to the so-called “full” synchronization solutions, InterIMAP is both much faster and parsimonious in network traffic.

Stateful synchronization is made possible by the QRESYNC extension from [RFC7162]; for convenience reasons servers must also support LIST-EXTENDED [RFC5258], LIST-STATUS [RFC5819] and UIDPLUS [RFC4315].

Furthermore, while InterIMAP can work with servers lacking support for LITERAL+ [RFC2088] and MULTIAPPEND [RFC3502], these extensions greatly improve performance by reducing the number of required round trips and it thus strongly recommended to use a server supporting these.

InterIMAP supports the COMPRESS=DEFLATE extension from [RFC4978]. It is enabled by default on remote servers advertising it, in order to reduce network traffic, especially for long-lived connections.

There are three methods to install interimap 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 interimap Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install interimap using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install interimap

Install interimap Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install interimap using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install interimap

Install interimap 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 interimap using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install interimap

How To Uninstall interimap on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the interimap package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove interimap

Uninstall interimap And Its Dependencies

To uninstall interimap and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove interimap

Remove interimap Configurations and Data

To remove interimap configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge interimap

Remove interimap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove interimap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge interimap

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install interimap package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.