How To Install makesmtpaccess-msa on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install courier-mta

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install courier-mta

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is makesmtpaccess-msa and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install makesmtpaccess-msa on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install makesmtpaccess-msa on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install makesmtpaccess-msa using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install courier-mta

Install makesmtpaccess-msa on CentOS 8 using yum

Because makesmtpaccess-msa is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install makesmtpaccess-msa package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install courier-mta

How to upgrade (update) a single package makesmtpaccess-msa using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like makesmtpaccess-msa in this example you should use the following command:

yum update courier-mta

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade courier-mta

How to Upgrade makesmtpaccess-msa on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update courier-mta

How To remove makesmtpaccess-msa from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the makesmtpaccess-msa package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove courier-mta

Extra info and code examples

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 provides an ESMTP daemon which uses the Maildir format as native storage format, supports IPv6, implements SMTP extensions for mailing list management and features integrated mail filtering. It can function as an intermediate mail relay, relaying mail between an internal LAN and the Internet, or perform final delivery to mailboxes. ESMTP over TLS is handled by the regular ESMTP daemon in conjunction with the TLS wrapper.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install makesmtpaccess-msa using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the makesmtpaccess-msa from CentOS 8.

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