< Home - < Back

libesmtp


Information about the package, libesmtp, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libesmtp package is designed for, SMTP client library.


Package Name:

libesmtp

Summary:

SMTP client library

Description:

LibESMTP is a library to manage posting (or submission of) electronic mail using SMTP to a preconfigured Mail Transport Agent (MTA) such as Exim. It may be used as part of a Mail User Agent (MUA) or another program that must be able to post electronic mail but where mail functionality is not the program's primary purpose.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.0.4

Release:

15.el6

Size:

57 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for libesmtp


Control the libesmtp package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install libesmtp

This command will install libesmtp on the server.

yum remove libesmtp

This command will un-install libesmtp on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libesmtp, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove libesmtp

This command will un-install libesmtp 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 libesmtp when using the -y flag.

yum update libesmtp

This command will update libesmtp to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libesmtp, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update libesmtp

This command will update libesmtp 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 libesmtp when using the -y flag.

yum info libesmtp

This command will show you core information about the libesmtp package.

yum deplist libesmtp

This command will show you the dependencies for libesmtp. 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 libesmtp

This command will check if there is an update waiting on libesmtp. 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.