Difference between revisions of "Sendmail"

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Sendmail is your smtp server for sending and receiving emails in linux.

Quick start

• Check if sendmail is activated

> ps axf | grep sendmail

• Here's how to activate sendmail

> chkconfig chkconfig --level 35 sendmail on
> /etc/init.d/sendmail start

• Test sendmail by sending an email

> echo "test" | mail -s testsubject someemail@hotmailorwherever.com

• Send files in email from command line

> afilename=somefile.ext;
> (echo "$afilename is attached" ; cat  $afilename | uuencode $afilename) | mail -s "`echo $afilename`" youraddress@yourserver.com

External links

• rimuhosting sendmail config howto.