Install courier-imap on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install courier-imap
Learn how to install courier-imap with the command sudo apt-get install courier-imap on Ubuntus.
Quick installation of courier-imap:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: courier-imap
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install courier-imap
Package Details | |
| Package: | courier-imap |
| Version: | 4.9.1-1ubuntu4 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://www.courier-mta.org/ |
| Description: | Courier mail server - IMAP server The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent, framework. . This package provides an IMAP server that accesses email stored in Maildirs format mailboxes. This server has an extremely small footprint and provides shared and virtual shared folders. Homepage: http://www.courier-mta.org/ |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/mail |
How to install courier-imap on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If courier-imap is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L courier-imap' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L courier-imap Package `courier-imap' is not installed. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing courier-imap:
After system update use the following command to install courier-imap:
sudo apt-get install courier-imap
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove courier-imap from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the courier-imap from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the courier-imap following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove courier-imap
Following command is used to remove the courier-imap package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove courier-imap
This will remove courier-imap and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing courier-imap with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge courier-imap
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove courier-imap
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with courier-imap package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.