1diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
2index 3db4eab4ba..39bc0e77c9 100644
3--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
4+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
5@@ -220,9 +220,9 @@ a password is obtained using 'git-credential'.
6 --smtp-server=<host>::
7 If set, specifies the outgoing SMTP server to use (e.g.
8 `smtp.example.com` or a raw IP address). If unspecified, and if
9- `--sendmail-cmd` is also unspecified, the default is to search
10- for `sendmail` in `/usr/sbin`, `/usr/lib` and $PATH if such a
11- program is available, falling back to `localhost` otherwise.
12+ `--sendmail-cmd` is also unspecified, the default is to search for
13+ `sendmail` in $PATH if such a program is available, falling back to
14+ `localhost` otherwise.
15 +
16 For backward compatibility, this option can also specify a full pathname
17 of a sendmail-like program instead; the program must support the `-i`
18diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
19index e65d969d0b..508d49483d 100755
20--- a/git-send-email.perl
21+++ b/git-send-email.perl
22@@ -1066,8 +1066,7 @@ sub expand_one_alias {
23 }
24
25 if (!defined $sendmail_cmd && !defined $smtp_server) {
26- my @sendmail_paths = qw( /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail );
27- push @sendmail_paths, map {"$_/sendmail"} split /:/, $ENV{PATH};
28+ my @sendmail_paths = map {"$_/sendmail"} split /:/, $ENV{PATH};
29 foreach (@sendmail_paths) {
30 if (-x $_) {
31 $sendmail_cmd = $_;