How to Install and Uninstall sendmail Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "sendmail" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install sendmail on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Learn how to uninstall sendmail on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: sendmail
Architecture: all
Version: 8.15.2-20
Priority: extra
Section: universe/mail
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 234
Depends: sendmail-base, sendmail-bin, sendmail-cf, sensible-mda
Suggests: sendmail-doc, rmail
Filename: pool/universe/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.15.2-20_all.deb
Size: 6496
MD5sum: 7ad8863c8e83d92e10285947fc85c4c8
SHA1: 0f2f8b031f9bfc29f5f41ee7dcc09ab628f8c3c4
SHA256: 65248aaa922bb51aebc677c106a46ab4eec64c2782adaa561b3139072cc86f81
SHA512: 7ffc4b521b9cc74526109c844330774986f6559dcb573360780fb44bd90ba2279e2be9b4fedc0a997b78669f69ddb93dd9effb7678d6e44fc1dab0fcc298f106
Homepage: http://www.sendmail.org
Description-en: 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: bbd5bcb657e377a34338360f5cd6def0