synaptic and "dpkg -l" says sendmail not installed.

Carl Friis-Hansen ubuntuuser at carl-fh.com
Thu Aug 6 21:38:07 UTC 2009


On Thu, August 6, 2009 22:57, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> "Locate sendmail" shows the program as being installed. Since I never
> installed it I assume it was a default install by another program. Also,
> since I have never installed a program except with synaptic or apt-get I
> would expect send mail to show as installed. What am I missing?

You have probably installed another MTA.  This other MTA will install a
sendmail substitute because many programs depend on sendmail to send mail.

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