How To Install courier-base on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-base on Ubuntu.

What is `courier-base`

courier-base is:

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 the functionality needed by all courier packages such as some configuration files, helper programs and the Courier TCP server daemon.

Courier uses the a TLS wrapper application named couriertls instead of embedding TLS support in the different applications. Additionally, this package contains a default set of trusted X.509 root CA certs.

There are three methods to install courier-base on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install courier-base Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install courier-base using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install courier-base

Install courier-base Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install courier-base using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install courier-base

Install courier-base 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install courier-base using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install courier-base

How To Uninstall courier-base on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the courier-base package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove courier-base

Uninstall courier-base And Its Dependencies

To uninstall courier-base and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove courier-base

Remove courier-base Configurations and Data

To remove courier-base configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge courier-base

Remove courier-base configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove courier-base configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge courier-base

Dependencies

courier-base have the following dependencies:

References

courier-base website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-base package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.