This should help you get Sendmail installed with basic configuration on Ubuntu.
sudo apt-get install sendmail/etc/hosts file: nano /etc/hosts127.0.0.1 localhost yourhostnamesudo sendmailconfigsudo service apache2 restart
restart apache2, really? Why would you need to do that?
if lemp server is
sudo service nginx restart
service php7.0-fpm restart
mail() is returning FALSE.. Not working for me (Ubuntu 16.04)
I like such blabbering as @m-ric, just to say something ...
on a clean server, do not forget to check whether you need a php-mail:
$ sudo apt-get install php-mail
To be sure, restart the server and execute the configuration with the command:
$ sudo /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig
Checking from the console (with the -v switch being traced):
$ echo "test message" | sendmail -v your@mail.com
You can also configure the settings in the php.ini: "...sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i"
I for example set up separately for each virtual host in my_vhost.conf:
<IfModule php[ver]_module>
php_admin_value sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f admin@example.com"
...many services, Google for example, require that a PTR record is specified, you can see this in the trace when the test is sent from the console with the key -v
Hi Everyone,
I followed the instruction and for some reason, i can get this working. here is my log
sender@xyz:~$ echo "test message" | sendmail -v reciver@me.com
reciver@me.com... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
220 xyz.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-3; Wed, 8 Nov 2017 01:21:43 +0800; (No UCE/UBE) logging access from: localhost(OK)-localhost [127.0.0.1]
EHLO xyz.com
250-xyz.com Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-EXPN
250-VERB
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
VERB
250 2.0.0 Verbose mode
MAIL From:sender@xyz.com SIZE=13 AUTH=sender@xyz.com
250 2.1.0 sender@xyz.com... Sender ok
RCPT To:reciver@me
DATA
250 2.1.5 reciver@me... Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
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Hi @yfarooq !
Congratulations on the coming New Year!
We would have made the world better if we told how we solved our problems)))
Or not yet solved?
The problem in determining the e-mail address in the listing about this is written, the address should be of the form: some@some.zone(add [.zone] to normal resolve mail address).
Hi All,
sensonicm, How to do it ?
(add [.zone] to normal resolve mail address).
Works for me. Greatly appreciated.
Not working on ubuntu 16.04. It is hanging while trying to generate ssl certificates.
More details here
Really useful, thanks.
@SavaNETgit Hi all!
In the example above there was an address "reciever@me.com", you need to specify an address with a specific zone, e.g. "sensonicm@gmail.com" The example did not work because the service could not determine the address.
@youssman
Everything works, look in the internet for information - you need to create a certificate before installation. It hangs during installation on the generation of the certificate. Spend the time, look, I have no time. If you do not find write, I'll find)
getting this error, help will be greatly appreciated.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package sendmail is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'sendmail' has no installation candidate
@elewinso, try to run:
sudo apt-get update
I have to run
cd /etc/mail/tls
sudo openssl dsaparam -out sendmail-common.prm 2048
sudo chown root:smmsp sendmail-common.prm
sudo chmod 0640 sendmail-common.prm
sudo dpkg --configure -a
The installation will hang on Ubuntu 16.04, the solution is to run these commands:
sudo openssl dsaparam -out sendmail-common.prm 2048
sudo chown root:smmsp sendmail-common.prm
sudo chmod 0640 sendmail-common.prm
sudo dpkg --configure -a
Reference: https://askubuntu.com/questions/937666/ubuntu-16-04-command-line-sendmail-installation-hanged
Worked fine for me (Ubuntu 18.04), Thanks!
really helpful.
I did only from step 1 to 4,
then it's works like a charm!
my use case is sending internal system(ubuntu 18.04) email notification to users in corporate colleague,
and no need of posfix, just need follow step 1 to 4, fast and neat!
thank you.
Hi @yfarooq !
Congratulations on the coming New Year!
We would have made the world better if we told how we solved our problems)))
Or not yet solved?
The problem in determining the e-mail address in the listing about this is written, the address should be of the form: some@some.zone(add [.zone] to normal resolve mail address).
I still can't get this to work.
Error: /etc/mail/submit.cf: line 6: invalid argument to V line: "ERSIONID(Id: startt"
/etc/mail/submit.cf: line 7: invalid argument to V line: "ERSIONID(Id: autoco"
I tired to comment both line 6 and 7 with # and still can't receive email
'yourhostname' should be long,
that mean, it should have dot com or similar, or you will get error in log:
unable to qualify my own domain name (hostname) - using short name.
For this I think you'll also have to allow gmail on less secure app https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en
Its working for me, the problem is the email address showing up on my email is it@localhost, how can I make it to show the hostname of the server and not localhost?
Worked fine for me (Ubuntu 18.04), Thanks!
I used this tutorial for ubuntu 18.04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nwJ63UhJTM
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?
pls how do i locate the sendmail.ini file in ubuntu 18
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
How to make sendmail work in a LAN? or between two computers connected via eht0
How to make sendmail work in a LAN? or between two computers connected via eht0
Good question, I'm following
Hi @bhaijiyunus I'm getting the same issue. Were you able to solve it?
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
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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)
not working for me.
mail() is returns true, but i'm not getting email at hotmail or gmail.