How To Install sendemail on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install sendemail on CentOS 7. sendemail is Lightweight command line SMTP e-mail client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sendemail on CentOS 7.

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

Install sendemail on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install sendemail using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sendemail

Install sendemail 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 sendemail using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sendemail

How To Uninstall sendemail on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove sendemail

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sendemail on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.