[CentOS] Setting up sendmail to mail system messages on CentOS 6 and 7

Mon Oct 29 02:23:10 UTC 2018
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:38:10AM +0900, マスターズ・イアン wrote:
> On 2018/10/27 21:00, centos-request at centos.org wrote:
> >I've previously configured sendmail to send system messages on selected
> >servers running CentOS 6. Usually they just kinda' work out of the box. No
> >problems to speak of.
> >
> >However most of my CentOS 7-servers are rather flakey when it comes to
> >sendmail. Most of the time they just won't send mails for whatever reason.
> >Further, most of the time I can get it working, it's usually about a
> >firewall rule not set, the firewall not having been reloaded or some simple
> >such.
> 
> Another thing to try would be Postfix. I've always found that very easy to use and also requires almost no configuration:
> https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_7&p=mail&f=1 (on the same site, a lot of very useful CentOS7 info)
> 
> Usually for local servers, all I do is:
> 1. Add root alias in /etc/aliases
> 2. Run 'newaliases'
> 3. Send test mail:
> echo "test from `hostname`" | mail -s 'mail test' me at address
> 
> That's all.
> 
> ian

Probably not helpful, but I run a home mailserver, always used sendmail.
Spent 15 years slowly accumulating a functioning sendmail.mc. When I
bring up a new system I just carry over the sendmail.mc, compile it,
restart sendmail and voila. EL7 was no different than EL6 in that regard.

Fred

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