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Install and configure Sendmail on Ubuntu

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Install and configure Sendmail on Ubuntu

This should help you get Sendmail installed with basic configuration on Ubuntu.

If sendmail isn't installed, install it: sudo apt-get install sendmail
Configure /etc/hosts file: nano /etc/hosts
Make sure the line looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost yourhostname
Run Sendmail's config and answer 'Y' to everything: sudo sendmailconfig
Restart apache sudo service apache2 restart

sarraHa commented Dec 3, 2019

Worked fine for me (Ubuntu 18.04), Thanks!

I used this tutorial for ubuntu 18.04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nwJ63UhJTM

jet2018 commented Feb 24, 2020

after doing your steps, i get this
[Mon Feb 24 09:50:24.782752 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 11060] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Feb 24 09:52:08.852440 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1128] AH00163: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Feb 24 09:52:09.024401 2020] [core:notice] [pid 1128] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'

what do i do?

iotstudent commented Apr 8, 2020

pls how do i locate the sendmail.ini file in ubuntu 18

bhaijiyunus commented Apr 16, 2020 •

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HI,
I run the below commands on my Ubuntu 18.04 to configure the sendemail/sendmail, I am getting email success message but never received an email. Help will appreciate. Thanks.
Apr 16 15:45:01 ubuntu sendemail[29360]: Email was sent successfully!
systemctl stop postfix
sudo apt remove postfix
sudo apt purge postfix
sudo apt-get install mailutils
sudo apt-get install sendmail sendemai

charity1475 commented Sep 30, 2020

How to make sendmail work in a LAN? or between two computers connected via eht0

bitridge commented Sep 30, 2020

How to make sendmail work in a LAN? or between two computers connected via eht0

Good question, I'm following

Dissorder commented Dec 30, 2021

Hi @bhaijiyunus I'm getting the same issue. Were you able to solve it?

thesimonshields commented May 19, 2022

Not working for me either

wondering if I could get the code and compile it

i get errors around missing packages javascript-common & sometimes java-common

sudo apt -f install sendmail
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-5.4.0-74-generic linux-headers-5.4.0-77-generic linux-hwe-5.4-headers-5.4.0-56 linux-hwe-5.4-headers-5.4.0-58
linux-hwe-5.4-headers-5.4.0-74 linux-hwe-5.4-headers-5.4.0-77 linux-image-5.4.0-74-generic linux-image-5.4.0-77-generic
linux-modules-5.4.0-74-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-77-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-74-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-77-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
liblockfile-bin liblockfile1 lockfile-progs procmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf sensible-mda
Suggested packages:
sendmail-doc rmail logcheck resolvconf sasl2-bin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
liblockfile-bin liblockfile1 lockfile-progs procmail sendmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf sensible-mda
0 to upgrade, 9 to newly install, 0 to remove and 292 not to upgrade.
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After this operation, 4,449 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Selecting previously unselected package liblockfile-bin.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'javascript-common' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'libv4l-0:i386' contains empty filename
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

azhagarpy commented Mar 27, 2025

how to restart the sendmail service ?

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