How To Install sendmail on Fedora 34
sendmail is A widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA)
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail on Fedora 34.
What is sendmail
The Sendmail program is a very widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA). MTAs send mail from one machine to another. Sendmail is not a client program, which you use to read your email. Sendmail is a behind-the-scenes program which actually moves your email over networks or the Internet to where you want it to go. If you ever need to reconfigure Sendmail, you will also need to have the sendmail-cf package installed. If you need documentation on Sendmail, you can install the sendmail-doc package.
We can use yum or dnf to install sendmail on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sendmail.
Install sendmail 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 sendmail using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sendmail
Install sendmail 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 sendmail using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sendmail
How To Uninstall sendmail on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the sendmail package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sendmail
sendmail Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/mail
/etc/mail/Makefile
/etc/mail/access
/etc/mail/access.db
/etc/mail/aliasesdb-stamp
/etc/mail/domaintable
/etc/mail/domaintable.db
/etc/mail/helpfile
/etc/mail/local-host-names
/etc/mail/mailertable
/etc/mail/mailertable.db
/etc/mail/make
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc
/etc/mail/submit.cf
/etc/mail/submit.mc
/etc/mail/trusted-users
/etc/mail/virtusertable
/etc/mail/virtusertable.db
/etc/pam.d/smtp
/etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail
/etc/sasl2/Sendmail.conf
/etc/smrsh
/etc/sysconfig/sendmail
/usr/bin/hoststat
/usr/bin/mailq
/usr/bin/mailq.sendmail
/usr/bin/makemap
/usr/bin/newaliases
/usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail
/usr/bin/purgestat
/usr/bin/rmail
/usr/bin/rmail.sendmail
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/5e7a2efaecdac43dca1483e2d2c1a96a2ddc47
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/851403c2d152e072ed9a83905409a6daa41579
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/0c0a2b01803b224c8d665339dbcd043600459f
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/31b0abe0d171fad96a0d9c5e926302c1b818f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/c323ea393d324cbf678562f52ddcda66bd75ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/cd58ce6f698e42d3a8812ea60665743299881f
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/a95936be1d6c790689226d5afff37bcbcb65a4
/usr/lib/NetworkManager
/usr/lib/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d
/usr/lib/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/10-sendmail
/usr/lib/sendmail
/usr/lib/sendmail.sendmail
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sendmail.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sm-client.service
/usr/sbin/editmap
/usr/sbin/editmap.sendmail
/usr/sbin/mailstats
/usr/sbin/makemap
/usr/sbin/makemap.sendmail
/usr/sbin/praliases
/usr/sbin/sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
/usr/sbin/smrsh
/usr/share/doc/sendmail
/usr/share/doc/sendmail/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS
/usr/share/doc/sendmail/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/sendmail/README
/usr/share/doc/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mailq.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mailq.sendmail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.sendmail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aliases.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aliases.sendmail.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/editmap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/editmap.sendmail.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/hoststat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mailstats.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/makemap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/makemap.sendmail.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/praliases.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/purgestat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rmail.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rmail.sendmail.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.sendmail.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/smrsh.8.gz
/var/log/mail
/var/log/mail/statistics
/var/spool/clientmqueue
/var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.st
/var/spool/mqueue
/etc/mail
/etc/mail/Makefile
/etc/mail/access
/etc/mail/access.db
/etc/mail/aliasesdb-stamp
/etc/mail/domaintable
/etc/mail/domaintable.db
/etc/mail/helpfile
/etc/mail/local-host-names
/etc/mail/mailertable
/etc/mail/mailertable.db
/etc/mail/make
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc
/etc/mail/submit.cf
/etc/mail/submit.mc
/etc/mail/trusted-users
/etc/mail/virtusertable
/etc/mail/virtusertable.db
/etc/pam.d/smtp
/etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail
/etc/sasl2/Sendmail.conf
/etc/smrsh
/etc/sysconfig/sendmail
/usr/bin/hoststat
/usr/bin/mailq
/usr/bin/mailq.sendmail
/usr/bin/makemap
/usr/bin/newaliases
/usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail
/usr/bin/purgestat
/usr/bin/rmail
/usr/bin/rmail.sendmail
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/45789be47b1db31efeb47c5622b3e226fe9cb9
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/be7c8ef289bd93c3dd780ccd01ac0a8a4bfa63
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/e97735f288ca7813f6779c515158a75b623c1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/695d8e86938db7bb69197ac58736f815e612d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/9ee7df0221e3d4253b36996a9a7d2bdb97a749
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/a4ef5f37528798991cce225c0abaf87ecc2083
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/6a852f614390fce39eccbe18110fb1facd368a
/usr/lib/NetworkManager
/usr/lib/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d
/usr/lib/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/10-sendmail
/usr/lib/sendmail
/usr/lib/sendmail.sendmail
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sendmail.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sm-client.service
/usr/sbin/editmap
/usr/sbin/editmap.sendmail
/usr/sbin/mailstats
/usr/sbin/makemap
/usr/sbin/makemap.sendmail
/usr/sbin/praliases
/usr/sbin/sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
/usr/sbin/smrsh
/usr/share/doc/sendmail
/usr/share/doc/sendmail/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS
/usr/share/doc/sendmail/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/sendmail/README
/usr/share/doc/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mailq.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mailq.sendmail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.sendmail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aliases.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aliases.sendmail.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/editmap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/editmap.sendmail.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/hoststat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mailstats.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/makemap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/makemap.sendmail.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/praliases.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/purgestat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rmail.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rmail.sendmail.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.sendmail.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/smrsh.8.gz
/var/log/mail
/var/log/mail/statistics
/var/spool/clientmqueue
/var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.st
/var/spool/mqueue
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
