how to trivially install sendmail to get fetchmail working?

[Robert P. J. Day]

Quoting Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net>:

> 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.

   ok, i'll give it a shot shortly, thanks.

rday