How To Install sendmail-cf on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail-cf on CentOS 7.
What is sendmail-cf
This package includes the configuration files you need to generate the sendmail.cf file distributed with the sendmail package. You will need the sendmail-cf package if you ever need to reconfigure and rebuild your sendmail.cf file.
We can use yum or dnf to install sendmail-cf on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sendmail-cf.
Install sendmail-cf on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install sendmail-cf using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sendmail-cf
Install sendmail-cf 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 sendmail-cf using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sendmail-cf
How To Uninstall sendmail-cf on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the sendmail-cf package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sendmail-cf
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail-cf on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
