{"id":2721,"date":"2012-04-07T13:12:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T05:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2023-04-28T09:49:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T09:49:37","slug":"how-to-stop-and-remove-sendmail-on-fedora-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/how-to-stop-and-remove-sendmail-on-fedora-16\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop and Remove Sendmail on Fedora 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sendmail\" data-src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-_SZc4zk7lWg\/T3_L1hMLrtI\/AAAAAAAACPU\/t5gwiFWOK7A\/s1600\/sendmail.jpg\" title=\"sendmail\" class=\"alignleft lazyload\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/225;\" \/>Sendmail is a general purpose internetwork email routing facility that supports many kinds of mail-transfer and -delivery methods, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) used for email transport over the Internet. In certain cases, you has to stop and remove the sendmail service on your server. It could be you want to install other smtp service such as postfix. In order to make postfix smoothly running, sendmail should be stop and removed. This post will show you on how to stop and remove sendmail on linux Fedora 16 server.<\/p>\n<p>Command to stop sendmail service :<\/p>\n<pre>\n[root@fedora16 ~]# service sendmail stop\n'Redirecting to \/bin\/systemctl  stop sendmail.service\n<\/pre>\n<p>Simply run this command to remove sendmail package on your server :<\/p>\n<pre>\n[root@fedora16 ~]# yum remove sendmail -y\n<\/pre>\n<p>Examples :<\/p>\n<pre>\n[root@fedora16 ~]# yum remove sendmail\nSetting up Remove Process\nResolving Dependencies\n--> Running transaction check\n---> Package sendmail.i686 0:8.14.5-6.fc16 will be erased\n--> Finished Dependency Resolution\n\nDependencies Resolved\n\n====================================================================================================\n Package               Arch              Version                     Repository                Size\n====================================================================================================\nRemoving:\n sendmail              i686              8.14.5-6.fc16               @anaconda-0              1.5 M\n\nTransaction Summary\n====================================================================================================\nRemove        1 Package\n\nInstalled size: 1.5 M\nIs this ok [y\/N]: y\nDownloading Packages:\nRunning Transaction Check\nRunning Transaction Test\nTransaction Test Succeeded\nRunning Transaction\n  Erasing    : sendmail-8.14.5-6.fc16.i686                                                      1\/1\n\nRemoved:\n  sendmail.i686 0:8.14.5-6.fc16\n\nComplete!\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sendmail is a general purpose internetwork email routing facility that supports many kinds of mail-transfer and -delivery methods, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) used for email transport over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2057],"tags":[1371,1975,1536,1546,1558,1750,1806],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","tag-fedora-16","tag-install","tag-linux","tag-linux-utilities","tag-mail-server","tag-sendmail","tag-stop-sendmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}