Mail alert not working

[inderraw]

Dear Team,

I have configured , but not getting mail notification, when i click on send test mail, getting following error.

A test email was sent to [email protected]
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Mailer said: Could not instantiate mail function. (method=sendmail)
An error occurred sending a test email!


Regards
Inder Singh Rawat.

[abrist]

Are you running one of our VMs, or was this a source install? If it was a source install, what version of centos/rhel?
What is the output of:

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ls -la /etc/alternatives/mta
which sendmail

[inderraw]

Dear Team,

Please find enclosed, after running command.

Regards
Inder Singh Rawat.

[abrist]

Are you running one of our VMs, or was this a source install? If it was a source install, what version of centos/rhel?

[inderraw]

Dear All,

Version is CentOS release 5.7 (Final).

Regards
Inder Singh Rawat

[abrist]

You may need to install sendmail:

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yum install sendmail

[inderraw]

Dear Team,

I have install sendmail, using following command.

yum install sendmail

now what next?

Regards
Inder Singh Rawat

[abrist]

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ls -la /etc/alternatives/mta
which sendmail

Do notifications work now?

[inderraw]

Dear Team,

now when i do click on send test mail, it is showing" message send sucessfully", but i am not getting mail.

Regards
Inder Singh Rawat

[sreinhardt]

Cool thanks for letting us know