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Abdennour TOUMI
Asked: 2014-01-22 09:37:34 +0800 CST

No such file or directory as on /usr/lib/sendmail (Ubuntu)

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I did many attempts to send mail using mail command as follows:

abdennour@pc: mail -v [email protected]
Subject: Hello World!
This is an email to myself.

Hope all is well.
.
Cc:

I get this error message:

/usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory
"/home/abdennour/dead.letter" 9/261 
. . . message not sent.
sendmail

3 Answers

  1. I found that if I installed both mailutils AND sendmail, that error went away and sending the contents of a file as an email worked:

    sudo apt-get install mailutils
sudo apt-get install sendmail
cat /tmp/somefile.txt | mail -s "My subject " [email protected]
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  2. Alternatively, install mutt (apt-get install mutt) which gives you a nicer (but still command line) interface

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  3. I was seeing the same error when trying to send a test message using a freshly installed copy of mailx.

    The problem was that I named the configuration file /etc/mail.rc instead of /etc/nail.rc. Renaming it to /etc/nail.rc solved the problem.

    Mailx used to be called nail and it seems like the global configuration file keeps the legacy name.

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