How To Install postfixadmin 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 postfixadmin on Ubuntu.

What is `postfixadmin`

postfixadmin is:

Postfixadmin is a web interface to manage virtual users and domains for a Postfix mail transport agent. It supports Virtual mailboxes, aliases, forwarders and vacation.

Postfixadmin allows administrators to delegate account handling to domain administrators and allows users to login and change their own settings (e.g. forwarders, vacation, passwords etc).

It provides easy integration into dovecot, courier or cyrus.

Postfixadmin is written in PHP.

There are three methods to install postfixadmin 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 postfixadmin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install postfixadmin

Install postfixadmin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install postfixadmin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install postfixadmin

Install postfixadmin 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 postfixadmin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install postfixadmin

How To Uninstall postfixadmin on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the postfixadmin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove postfixadmin

Uninstall postfixadmin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove postfixadmin

Remove postfixadmin Configurations and Data

To remove postfixadmin configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge postfixadmin

Remove postfixadmin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge postfixadmin

Dependencies

postfixadmin have the following dependencies:

References

postfixadmin website

Summary

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