Ubuntu – Completely remove sendmail

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How do I completely remove sendmail? I have tried the following:

apt-get remove sendmail
apt-get purge sendmail

Sendmail is still there and running, how do I completely remove it and all config files?

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To remove send mail completely you have to use:

apt-get purge sendmail*

(Note the * at the end.)

Thanks to this post here on Ubuntu forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=916606

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You cannot remove OpenJDK 7 because it is not installed. If you are trying to remove OpenJDK 6, try sudo apt-get remove openjdk-6-jdk, or sudo apt-get remove default-jdk.

apt-cache search only shows you available packages, not the packages you have installed. For that, try sudo dpkg --list; sudo dpkg --list | grep -i jdk will show you any JDK-related packages installed on your system.

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I believe you mail is queued. Just try mailq and then sendmail -q or sendmail -q -v.

Possible is also, that email is being held because of unknown host. You need to have set localhost and your hostname in /etc/hosts

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With mailx

echo you message  | mail -s subject user@host

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