I installed sendmail:
$ sudo apt-get install sendmail
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
procmail sensible-mda
Suggested packages:
sendmail-doc rmail
The following NEW packages will be installed:
procmail sendmail sensible-mda
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Get:1 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/debian/ wheezy/main procmail i386 3.22-20 [154 kB]
Get:2 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/debian/ wheezy/main sensible-mda i386 8.14.4-4 [218 kB]
Get:3 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/debian/ wheezy/main sendmail all 8.14.4-4 [215 kB]
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Setting up sendmail (8.14.4-4) ...
But when I type “sendmail” it says the command isn’t found. Did I install sendmail properly? If I did, why is it saying the command isn’t found?
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Somewhat confusingly, the
sendmailpackage doesn’t actually provide the/usr/sbin/sendmailcommand.That’s how I’ve installed it!
When I type the command
which sendmailI get the following/usr/sbin/sendmailWhat do you get if you write the command
sudo find / -name "sendmail"