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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.

  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
@yfarooq
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yfarooq commented Oct 3, 2018

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

@inneroot
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inneroot commented Dec 4, 2018

'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.

@bitridge
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bitridge commented Jul 9, 2019

For this I think you'll also have to allow gmail on less secure app https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en

@NSBSD-InfoTech
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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?

@sarraHa
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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

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

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

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

Good question, I'm following

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

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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.
Need to get 0 B/899 kB of archives.
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)

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