How to Install and Uninstall fetchmail Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: November 25,2024

1. Install "fetchmail" package

Please follow the guidance below to install fetchmail on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install fetchmail

2. Uninstall "fetchmail" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall fetchmail on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):

$ sudo apt remove fetchmail $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the fetchmail package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: fetchmail
Architecture: amd64
Version: 6.4.8-1
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 960
Provides: fetchmail-ssl
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libcom-err2 (>= 1.43.9), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.13~alpha1+dfsg), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), debianutils (>= 1.7), adduser (>= 3.34), lsb-base (>= 3.2-13)
Recommends: ca-certificates
Suggests: fetchmailconf, default-mta | mail-transport-agent, resolvconf
Conflicts: fetchmail-common
Breaks: fetchmail-ssl (<= 6.2.5-12), logcheck (<< 1.1.1-9)
Replaces: fetchmail-common, fetchmail-ssl
Filename: pool/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.4.8-1_amd64.deb
Size: 357740
MD5sum: e683072cab0db1eb1eddd6a607948228
SHA1: 3e4bc40682523dc4128d25d14e6343ff741a0eb1
SHA256: 4e4528a5f1b1e721df52d82994d36448cd471880e945d8bc7ac57bc66d4a02f4
SHA512: e0f970fc5984be50969daebe4e168cdef09eed30ba9f53dcdcca830eb9dec2d1dc2ead898a42d99e33f80e5a830d220dcd02d2fb841a9d658069c3d8f98426ae
Homepage: http://www.fetchmail.info
Description-en: SSL enabled POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder
fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, and well-documented remote mail
retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP
links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It retrieves mail from remote mail
servers and forwards it to your local (client) machine's delivery system, so
it can then be read by normal mail user agents such as mutt, elm, pine,
(x)emacs/gnus, or mailx. The fetchmailconf package includes an interactive
GUI configurator suitable for end-users.
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Kerberos V and GSSAPI are supported.
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Kerberos IV, RPA, OPIE and other support for some other features are
available if the package is recompiled.
Description-md5: 05cb6c758ac9e6de53b36438f8f52a45