How to Install and Uninstall sendmail-bin Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 10,2024

1. Install "sendmail-bin" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install sendmail-bin on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                sendmail-bin
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "sendmail-bin" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall sendmail-bin on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                sendmail-bin
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the sendmail-bin package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: sendmail-bin
Priority: extra
Section: universe/mail
Installed-Size: 1773
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: amd64
Source: sendmail
Version: 8.15.2-3
Replaces: mail-transport-agent
Provides: mail-transport-agent
Depends: sendmail-base (= 8.15.2-3), sendmail-cf (= 8.15.2-3), procps, libc6 (>= 2.15), libdb5.3, libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), liblockfile1 (>= 1.0), libsasl2-2, libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0), libwrap0 (>= 7.6-4~)
Pre-Depends: debconf
Suggests: sendmail-doc, sasl2-bin, libsasl2-modules, openssl
Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
Filename: pool/universe/s/sendmail/sendmail-bin_8.15.2-3_amd64.deb
Size: 479046
MD5sum: 362657ff3c3d037bb98e107fb22dff7d
SHA1: 55692a3d8f7b5743e9780a59547280e15ef3d0f5
SHA256: f2a2c674b7bc51c109c97d3ceb0e2982470fe34fa61981fcbd95e93804b73f6e
Description-en: powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent
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 thing 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).
Description-md5: 88ee8c6a7337b272ccfe94862f9b3979
Homepage: http://www.sendmail.org
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu