Configure sendmail on CentOS to send mails from server?

[Jovani]

Hi there,

Are there any ways how to configure sendmail on CentOS to send mails from server?

thanks in advanced

 

[Alex Thompson]

Hi there,

Are there any ways how to configure sendmail on CentOS to send mails from server?

thanks in advanced

If you simply want your server can send mail to the outside, you can use sendmail application. Once installed and configured, you can use the mail() function of PHP to send mail.

Install sendmail

sudo yum install sendmail sendmail-cf

Configuring sendmail

nano /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

Note not edit sendmail.cf file because this file is automatically generated from sendmail.mc file

Configure DAEMON_OPTIONS to allow sending mail from localhost/smtp

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl

Edit LOCAL_DOMAIN to hostname

LOCAL_DOMAIN(`example.com')dnl

Update sendmail configuration

sudo make -C /etc/mail

Restart

sudo service sendmail restart

Check sendmail

echo "Subject: your subject" | /usr/lib/sendmail -v [email protected]

In order to facilitate the sending of mail, you should note hostname in CentOS install exactly.