How To Install sendmail on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sendmail.
Install sendmail on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install sendmail
using yum
by running the following command:
Install 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.
After updating yum database, We can install sendmail
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall sendmail on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the sendmail
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.