Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spamassassin on Kali Linux.
What is spamassassin
spamassassin is:
SpamAssassin is a very powerful and fully configurable spam filter
with numerous features including automatic white-listing, RBL
testing, Bayesian analysis, header and body text analysis. It is
designed to be called from a user’s .procmail or .forward file, but
can also be integrated into a Mail Transport Agent (MTA).
Included in this package is a daemonized form of spamassassin (spamd)
which communicates with its client (spamc) via TCP, to reduce the
overhead of loading perl with each message. To take advantage of
this, you must install the spamc package.
There are three methods to install spamassassin 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 spamassassin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install spamassassin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spamassassin
Install spamassassin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spamassassin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spamassassinInstall spamassassin 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 update
After updating apt database, We can install spamassassin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spamassassin
How To Uninstall spamassassin on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the spamassassin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spamassassin
Uninstall spamassassin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spamassassin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spamassassin
Remove spamassassin Configurations and Data
To remove spamassassin configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spamassassin
Remove spamassassin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spamassassin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spamassassin
Dependencies
spamassassin have the following dependencies:
- perl
- libhtml-parser-perl
- libsocket6-perl
- adduser
- libsys-hostname-long-perl
- libarchive-tar-perl
- libnet-dns-perl
- libnetaddr-ip-perl
- libhttp-date-perl
- libmail-dkim-perl
- lsb-base
- libwww-perl
- init-system-helpers
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spamassassin package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
