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Install and configure Sendmail on Ubuntu 14.04
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Install and configure Sendmail on Ubuntu

This should help you get Sendmail installed with basic configuration on Ubuntu.

  1. If sendmail isn't installed, install it: sudo apt-get install sendmail
  2. Configure /etc/hosts file: nano /etc/hosts
  3. Make sure the line looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost yourhostname
  4. Run Sendmail's config and answer 'Y' to everything: sudo sendmailconfig
  5. Restart apache sudo service apache2 restart
  6. $ echo "Subject: sendmail test" | sendmail -v SOMETHING@SOMEMAIL.COM

RAILS - Sending via Local Sendmail:

If you want to send the e-mails in the traditional way via local sendmail, then you need to insert the following lines into your configuration file config/environments/development.rb (for the development environment) or config/environments/production.rb (for your production environment):

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :sendmail
config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
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