How To Install perl-Mail-Sendmail on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Mail-Sendmail on CentOS 7. perl-Mail-Sendmail is Simple platform independent mailer for Perl

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Mail-Sendmail on CentOS 7.

What is perl-Mail-Sendmail

Mail sending e-mail from your perl script. It only requires Perl 5 and a network connection. Mail which takes a hash with the message to send and sends it. It is intended to be very easy to setup and use.

We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Mail-Sendmail on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Mail-Sendmail.

Install perl-Mail-Sendmail on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install perl-Mail-Sendmail using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Mail-Sendmail

Install perl-Mail-Sendmail on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install perl-Mail-Sendmail using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Mail-Sendmail

How To Uninstall perl-Mail-Sendmail on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the perl-Mail-Sendmail package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-Mail-Sendmail

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Mail-Sendmail on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.