How To Install sendemail on Fedora 34

sendemail is Lightweight command line SMTP e-mail client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sendemail on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sendemail.

Install sendemail on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

To uninstall only the sendemail package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sendemail

sendemail Package Contents on Fedora 34

/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.