how to trivially install sendmail to get fetchmail working?

[Hal Burgiss]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> so would simply installing sendmail on the ubuntu system, then
> starting it, be sufficient?  i am by no means a sendmail expert -- i
> don't recall if i ever messed with the sendmail config files on my
> fedora system.
>

I haven't installed the sendmail package on Ubunutu, but have
installed postfix (which includes sendmail compatible binaries), and I
am pretty sure a simple default install would do exactly what you
want. In any case, its simple enough to try the installation and see
if things then work correctly.

If for some reason you wind up having to hand edit the configs, I find
postfix way more sane than sendmail. From a functionality standpoint,
they do pretty much the same things.


-- 
Hal