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