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

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "postal" package

Please follow the instructions below to install postal on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                postal
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "postal" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall postal on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                postal
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the postal package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: postal
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.76
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Russell Coker
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 219
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Filename: pool/universe/p/postal/postal_0.76_amd64.deb
Size: 55584
MD5sum: a31eb0c19cb11f54291e9253c498f1b6
SHA1: 5d9f9a9193719dfb7655ec27e9203e70e495d969
SHA256: e38ec3876fa8fda68ccc163cb9208b3a9db91192844c8d330d221a555a770956
SHA512: f920275f9002d89b453bfbb92c060453b495d4d678cb086ba7687dd9cc6f7bc91d00e78c663c2817f7c4af6a02d0a5e1b1777057e94e683759103884efc42894
Homepage: https://doc.coker.com.au/projects/postal/
Description-en: SMTP benchmark - the mad postman.
This program starts a specified number of processes to send as much random
data to random accounts as possible.
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Adds the X-Postal header to email it sends, so if someone uses it unethically
then it will be easy to filter via procmail.
Description-md5: 070f3dccb444359fa1053e25fee30177