how to trivially install sendmail to get fetchmail working?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Hal Burgiss wrote:

> 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.

  and that worked nicely, thanks.  now ... what else can i mess up?

rday
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