How To Install sendemail on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sendemail on CentOS 8.
What is sendemail
SendEmail is a lightweight, completely command line based, SMTP e-mail client. It was designed to be used in bash scripts, batch files, Perl programs and web sites, but is also quite useful in many other contexts. SendEmail is written in Perl and is unique in that it requires no special modules. It has a straight forward interface, making it very easy to use.
We can use yum or dnf to install sendemail on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sendemail.
Install sendemail on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install sendemail using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sendemail
Install sendemail on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install sendemail using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sendemail
How To Uninstall sendemail on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the sendemail package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sendemail
sendemail Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/sendEmail
/usr/bin/sendemail
/usr/share/doc/sendemail
/usr/share/doc/sendemail/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/sendemail/README
/usr/share/man/man1/sendEmail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sendemail.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sendemail on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.