How To Install spamass-milter 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 spamass-milter on Ubuntu.

What is `spamass-milter`

spamass-milter is:

A milter used to filter mail through spamassassin (spamc) early in the delivery process. Enables site wide filtering through spamassassin without speed penalties incured by setting up and tearing down procmail processes for each e-mail.

Will work with sendmail, postfix, or any other MTA which can use milters.

Administrator (or user) specified rejection threshold
User specific spamassassin settings
Header-only modification

There are three methods to install spamass-milter 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 spamass-milter Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install spamass-milter

Install spamass-milter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install spamass-milter

Install spamass-milter 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 spamass-milter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spamass-milter

How To Uninstall spamass-milter on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the spamass-milter package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove spamass-milter

Uninstall spamass-milter And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spamass-milter

Remove spamass-milter Configurations and Data

To remove spamass-milter configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge spamass-milter

Remove spamass-milter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spamass-milter

Dependencies

spamass-milter have the following dependencies:

References

spamass-milter website

Summary

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