Unable to send mail with sendmail in Plesk: sendmail unsuccessfully finished with exitcode 70

Symptoms

• Unable to send mail message via sendmail command line utility:

  # echo “Subject: sendmail test” | sendmail -v [email protected]
  plesk sendmail[21306]: my_popen(): execve(/usr/lib64/plesk-9.0/sendmail/sendmail.postfix) failed: No such file or directory [2]
  plesk sendmail[21306]: Unable to execute MTA
  plesk sendmail[21305]: sendmail unsuccessfully finished with exitcode 70

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  /usr/sbin/sendmail: 1: /usr/sbin/sendmail: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

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  /usr/sbin/sendmail: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

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  plesk sendmail[20188]: cannot create temporary file - (13) Permission denied
  plesk sendmail[20188]: Unable to save stdin content to temporary file

• The same error can be found on /var/log/maillog file.

Cause

File/usr/lib64/plesk-9.0/sendmail/sendmail.postfix is missing or corrupted

Resolution

1. Determine what mail server installed: Plesk > Tools & Settings > Mail Server Settings:
   
   

2. Connect to the server via SSH;

3. Download and reinstall a package suitable for the environment from the Plesk repository according to the Plesk version:
   “plesk-mail-pc-driver” (for Postfix mail server)
   “plesk-mail-qc-driver” (for Qmail mail server) 

   example for Debian-based OS:

   Warning: “PSA_18.0.36” in the below URL needs to be replaced with the actual version on your server as well as the OS name and version “Ubuntu-20.04” needs to be replaced with currently installed on the server.

   # wget http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_18.0.36/dist-deb-Ubuntu-20.04-x86_64/opt/maildrivers/plesk-mail-pc-driver_18.0-v.ubuntu.20.04+p18.0.36.0+t210601.1013_amd64.deb

   Note: Plesk and OS versions could be verified using the next CLI command:

   # plesk -v

   Remove the current package:

   # dpkg -P –force-all plesk-mail-pc-driver

   Install the downloaded one:

   # dpkg -i plesk-mail-pc-driver_18.0-v.ubuntu.20.04+p18.0.36.0+t210601.1013_amd64.deb

   example for RedHat-based OS:

   Warning: “PSA_18.0.36” in the below URL needs to be replaced with the actual version on your server as well as the OS name and version “CentOS-8” needs to be replaced with currently installed on the server.

   # wget http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_18.0.36/dist-rpm-CentOS-8-x86_64/opt/maildrivers/plesk-mail-pc-driver/plesk-mail-pc-driver-18.0-2.centos.8+p18.0.36.0+t210601.1013.x86_64.rpm

   Note: Plesk and OS versions could be verified using the next CLI command:

   # plesk -v

   Remove the current package:

   # rpm -ev plesk-mail-pc-driver

   Install the downloaded one:

   # rpm -ivh plesk-mail-pc-driver-18.0-2.centos.8+p18.0.36.0+t210601.1013.x86_64.rpm