Can anyone tell me what needs to be done to reinstall sendmail on a red hat 7.1 server?

Thanks.

rpm -Fvh sendmail*8.11.6-2.7.1.i386.rpm as root, in a directory with sendmail-8.11.6-2.7.1.i386.rpm, sendmail-doc-8.11.6-2.7.1.i386.rpm, and sendmail-cf-8.11.6-2.7.1.i386.rpm from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.1/en/os/i386/

Or you could install qmail for a real upgrade =)

Sorry, couldn't resist :)

do i need to delete sendmail b4 i can install qmail ???

Hmm, installing qmail is a whole different ball of wax.

Regarding removal of sendmail, I don't see why you would have to. Just install and configure qmail, disable sendmail, enable qmail.

Check out http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html for the author's qmail page.

Hi!
When it comes to MTA's my first choice would always be sendmail... It is very good.... :)
qmail is Ok but it is not as easy as sendmail to understand.. Generally the myth is that it is the otherway round.. But get down do a real installation for a virtual hosting environment and you'd agree with me...

I know this is sensitive subject and I just gave in my views... (my 2 cents... ;) )

Have a nice day :)

Regards
Amar

Yeah, if you come from sendmail background i.e. if $%%$!@@# makes sense to you ;)

Otherwise qmail or any other MTA is good enough :)

lol
That may not be completely true... ;)
Amar

Excuse my stupidity, but I was unable to re-install sendmail based on any of the reply posts...

Originally posted by raqman
Excuse my stupidity, but I was unable to re-install sendmail based on any of the reply posts...

Hm.. rpm -qa | grep sendmail..
For those packages, rpm -e them and then rpm -Uvh them.

sendmail!?!? ack. (pardon my trollness)

I would actually reccomend installing postfix over qmail.

Although both are nice and have been much more reliable to me than sendmail.