Information about the package, swaks, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The swaks package is designed for, Command-line SMTP transaction tester.
Package Name:
swaks
Summary:
Command-line SMTP transaction tester
Description:
Swiss Army Knife SMTP: A command line SMTP tester. Swaks can test various aspects of your SMTP server, including TLS and AUTH.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
20170101.0
Release:
1.el6
Size:
102 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the swaks package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install swaks
This command will install swaks on the server.
yum remove swaks
This command will un-install swaks on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove swaks, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove swaks
This command will un-install swaks 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 swaks when using the -y flag.
yum update swaks
This command will update swaks to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove swaks, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update swaks
This command will update swaks 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 swaks when using the -y flag.
yum info swaks
This command will show you core information about the swaks package.
yum deplist swaks
This command will show you the dependencies for swaks. 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 swaks
This command will check if there is an update waiting on swaks. 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.