How to Install and Uninstall sendmail Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "sendmail" package

This is a short guide on how to install sendmail on Kali Linux


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall sendmail on Kali Linux:


    
        
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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 Kali Linux

Package: sendmail
Version: 8.18.1-1
Installed-Size: 227
Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: all
Depends: sendmail-base, sendmail-bin, sendmail-cf, sensible-mda
Suggests: sendmail-doc, rmail
Size: 218664
SHA256: 5ba197840086696e115cfb77f7d7f9c20f7437b99d102b58ada146446dc4044a
SHA1: cb86966381834d8ea91d2467ceeecbd273ce4117
MD5sum: 6df27685f4b115be13a1163823e2bb9f
Description: powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent (metapackage)
Sendmail is an alternative Mail Transport Agent (MTA) for Debian.
It is suitable for handling sophisticated mail configurations,
although this means that its configuration can also be complex.
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Fortunately, simple things can be done easily, and complex things
are possible, even if not easily understood ;) Sendmail is the *ONLY*
MTA with a Turing complete language to control *ALL* aspects of delivery!
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Sendmail provides Security and SPAM/UCE/UBE protection via several means.
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Sendmail includes *no* Mail User Agents (MUA), you'll have to
pick from the plethora of available MUAs (mutt, vm, etc.)
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This package supports REGEX, DB, NIS, NIS+, LDAP, DNS maps,
and has enabled TCPWrappers, IPv6, LockFile, SMTP AUTH(SASL), STARTTLS(SSL).
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This package is to make installation/upgrading easier (Do NOT delete it)
Description-md5:
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_8.18.1-1_all.deb