How to Install and Uninstall swaks Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: January 30,2025

1. Install "swaks" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install swaks on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall swaks on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                swaks
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the swaks package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: swaks
Priority: optional
Section: universe/mail
Installed-Size: 231
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Andreas Metzler
Architecture: all
Version: 20130209.0-5
Depends: perl
Recommends: libnet-dns-perl, libnet-ssleay-perl
Suggests: perl-doc, libauthen-sasl-perl, libauthen-ntlm-perl
Filename: pool/universe/s/swaks/swaks_20130209.0-5_all.deb
Size: 64676
MD5sum: 46fc57a379e306e651c7df36d1b2b0c4
SHA1: 65aa8bfba2f3ef35347743aec8e38297527a386e
SHA256: 7aca98c993add9b452c95eb07d84a39450d18168f73766a1c72a94740583fdc2
Description-en: SMTP command-line test tool
swaks (Swiss Army Knife SMTP) is a command-line tool written in Perl
for testing SMTP setups; it supports STARTTLS and SMTP AUTH (PLAIN,
LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, SPA, and DIGEST-MD5). swaks allows one to stop the
SMTP dialog at any stage, e.g to check RCPT TO: without actually
sending a mail.
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If you are spending too much time iterating "telnet foo.example 25"
swaks is for you.
Description-md5: f44c6c864f0f0cb3896aa932ce2bdaa8
Homepage: http://www.jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu