How to Install and Uninstall sendmail Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 15,2024

1. Install "sendmail" package

This tutorial shows how to install sendmail on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                sendmail
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "sendmail" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall sendmail on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                sendmail
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the sendmail package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: sendmail
Version: 8.15.2-14~deb10u1
Installed-Size: 234
Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: all
Depends: sendmail-base, sendmail-bin, sendmail-cf, sensible-mda
Suggests: sendmail-doc, rmail
Description: powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent (metapackage)
Description-md5: bbd5bcb657e377a34338360f5cd6def0
Homepage: http://www.sendmail.org
Tag: interface::daemon, mail::smtp, mail::transport-agent, protocol::ipv6,
protocol::smtp, role::metapackage, role::program, works-with::mail
Section: mail
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.15.2-14~deb10u1_all.deb
Size: 222892
MD5sum: 0c0d6e2309be0c137356a2ba7eb0d810
SHA256: 203c82026cf1035dcb517cba5b3454a88725fd1b579041e3deffcd5405f4f49c