Information about the package, sendmail, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The sendmail package is designed for, A widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA).
Package Name:
sendmail
Summary:
A widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA)
Description:
The Sendmail program is a very widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA). MTAs send mail from one machine to another. Sendmail is not a client program, which you use to read your email. Sendmail is a behind-the-scenes program which actually moves your email over networks or the Internet to where you want it to go. If you ever need to reconfigure Sendmail, you will also need to have the sendmail-cf package installed. If you need documentation on Sendmail, you can install the sendmail-doc package.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
8.14.4
Release:
9.el6_8.1
Size:
717 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
Sendmail
Control the sendmail package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install sendmail
This command will install sendmail on the server.
yum remove sendmail
This command will un-install sendmail on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove sendmail, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove sendmail
This command will un-install sendmail on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove sendmail when using the -y flag.
yum update sendmail
This command will update sendmail to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove sendmail, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update sendmail
This command will update sendmail to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove sendmail when using the -y flag.
yum info sendmail
This command will show you core information about the sendmail package.
yum deplist sendmail
This command will show you the dependencies for sendmail. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update sendmail
This command will check if there is an update waiting on sendmail. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.