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Re: Sending mail from the terminal

Mmm, wouldn't recommend "the" sendmail package. Postfix is a drop-in replacement (i.e. it pretends to be sendmail) so unless you have a custom sendmail configuration, you should be able to just remove sendmail and replace it with postfix. Just pay attention when removing sendmail in case they've screwed up the dependencies and linked it to something you don't want to remove.
Sendmail was one of (the?) first mail package, take a look at the config docs, it's pretty horrible. As far as I'm aware postfix is...
Mmm, wouldn't recommend "the" sendmail package. Postfix is a drop-in replacement (i.e. it pretends to be sendmail) so unless you have a custom sendmail configuration, you should be able to just remove sendmail and replace it with postfix. Just pay attention when removing sendmail in case they've screwed up the dependencies and linked it to something you don't want to remove.
Sendmail was one of (the?) first mail package, take a look at the config docs, it's pretty horrible. As far as I'm aware postfix is...

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