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

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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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)