Information about the package, milter-greylist, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The milter-greylist package is designed for, Milter for greylisting, the next step in the spam control war.
Package Name:
milter-greylist
Summary:
Milter for greylisting, the next step in the spam control war
Description:
Greylisting is a new method of blocking significant amounts of spam at the mailserver level, but without resorting to heavyweight statistical analysis or other heuristical (and error-prone) approaches. Consequently, implementations are fairly lightweight, and may even decrease network traffic and processor load on your mailserver. This package provides a greylist filter for sendmail's milter API.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
4.5.12
Release:
2.el6
Size:
146 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD with advertising
Control the milter-greylist package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install milter-greylist
This command will install milter-greylist on the server.
yum remove milter-greylist
This command will un-install milter-greylist on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove milter-greylist, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove milter-greylist
This command will un-install milter-greylist on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove milter-greylist when using the -y flag.
yum update milter-greylist
This command will update milter-greylist to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove milter-greylist, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update milter-greylist
This command will update milter-greylist to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove milter-greylist when using the -y flag.
yum info milter-greylist
This command will show you core information about the milter-greylist package.
yum deplist milter-greylist
This command will show you the dependencies for milter-greylist. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update milter-greylist
This command will check if there is an update waiting on milter-greylist. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.