How To Install spampd on Kali Linux

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install spampd

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is spampd and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Kali Linux. This guide was written specifically with a server running Kali Linux 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 spampd on Kali Linux. 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 spampd using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt -y install spampd

Install spampd using apt

Because spampd is available in Kali Linux’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install spampd using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install spampd

Install spampd 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 Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install spampd by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spampd

How to upgrade (update) a single package spampd using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the spampd, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install spampd

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install spampd

How To Uninstall spampd from Kali Linux

To uninstall only the spampd package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove spampd

Uninstall spampd and all its dependencies

To uninstall spampd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spampd

Remove spampd with all configurations and data

To remove spampd configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge spampd

Remove spampd completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to spampd package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spampd

Extra info and code examples

spampd is an SMTP/LMTP server designed to be hooked into the MTA processing chain (e.g. as a content filter). It is written in Perl and uses the Net::Server framework. It is intended to provide spam filtering at the system level (i.e. ususally for all users). If you rely on per-user configuration or per-user Bayes databases, spampd is not for you. The major advantage of spampd over plain SpamAssassin (both directly and through spamd) is that it doesn't need to load all needed perl modules on every invocation or spawn a C programme for every mail it receives. Compared to using spamc/spamd, spampd can usually provide a 25% performance increase with local-only tests. The advantage of spampd over amavisd-new is that it uses the original SpamAssassin header tags, which are more verbose than the tags which amavisd-new provides. This allows easier filtering in the mail client and easier tuning of SpamAssassin.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install spampd using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the spampd from Kali Linux.

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