How to Install and Uninstall fetchmail Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "fetchmail" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install fetchmail on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install fetchmail

2. Uninstall "fetchmail" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall fetchmail on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):

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

3. Information about the fetchmail package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: fetchmail
Architecture: amd64
Version: 6.4.22-1
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 968
Provides: fetchmail-ssl
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), 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_6.4.22-1_amd64.deb
Size: 380306
MD5sum: 6a2e68953fa527d086e5427b1afe315f
SHA1: 2c52b366fd0b39c0dd65b8e2f4cadb95ebc95f0d
SHA256: 22cc5a97e0029daf930c4cf0255e68248ac88ea0b56bdea4f313563e62aa7807
SHA512: 350f282a14efbd2590ecdb29c1d19f45bf7ecc5649a3db3b55b51ffd8c937b3fa3b3125f61a25b861f36f05dd8982600312d3edc3404dbc04a1b7fe3281e3625
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