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Created November 24, 2019 02:51 — forked from adamstac/gist:7462202
Install and configure Sendmail on Ubuntu

Install and configure Sendmail on Ubuntu

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

  1. If sendmail isn't installed, install it: sudo apt-get install sendmail
  2. Configure /etc/hosts file: nano /etc/hosts
  3. Make sure the line looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost yourhostname
  4. Run Sendmail's config and answer 'Y' to everything: sudo sendmailconfig
  5. Restart apache sudo service apache2 restart
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IzyPizy / Email Server (Linux, Unix, Mac).md
Created November 24, 2019 02:43 — forked from raelgc/Email Server (Linux, Unix, Mac).md
Setup a Local Only SMTP Email Server (Linux, Unix, Mac)

Setup a Local Only SMTP Email Server (Linux, Unix, Mac)

1 - Point localhost.com to your machine

Most of programs will not accept an email using just @localhost as domain. So, edit /etc/hosts file to make the domain localhost.com point to your machine, including this content to the file:

127.0.0.1 localhost.com

2 - Install Postfix