Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install amavisd-milter on CentOS 8.
What is amavisd-milter
The amavisd-milter is a sendmail milter (mail filter) for amavisd-new 2.4.3 (and above) and sendmail 8.13 (and above) which use the new AM.PDP protocol. Run ‘usermod -a -G amavis postfix’ when using Postfix and amavisd-milter via the unix socket.
We can use yum or dnf to install amavisd-milter on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install amavisd-milter.
Install amavisd-milter on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install amavisd-milter using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install amavisd-milter
Install amavisd-milter on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install amavisd-milter using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install amavisd-milter
How To Uninstall amavisd-milter on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the amavisd-milter package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove amavisd-milter
amavisd-milter Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/sysconfig/amavisd-milter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/da1b517d3a1852bf2aa5fe0c050b2c50f27d57
/usr/lib/systemd/system/amavisd-milter.service
/usr/sbin/amavisd-milter
/usr/share/doc/amavisd-milter
/usr/share/doc/amavisd-milter/CHANGES
/usr/share/licenses/amavisd-milter
/usr/share/licenses/amavisd-milter/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/amavisd-milter.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install amavisd-milter on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
