diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 3db4eab4ba..39bc0e77c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -220,9 +220,9 @@ a password is obtained using 'git-credential'.
 --smtp-server=<host>::
 	If set, specifies the outgoing SMTP server to use (e.g.
 	`smtp.example.com` or a raw IP address).  If unspecified, and if
-	`--sendmail-cmd` is also unspecified, the default is to search
-	for `sendmail` in `/usr/sbin`, `/usr/lib` and $PATH if such a
-	program is available, falling back to `localhost` otherwise.
+	`--sendmail-cmd` is also unspecified, the default is to search for
+	`sendmail` in $PATH if such a program is available, falling back to
+	`localhost` otherwise.
 +
 For backward compatibility, this option can also specify a full pathname
 of a sendmail-like program instead; the program must support the `-i`
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index e65d969d0b..508d49483d 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -1066,8 +1066,7 @@ sub expand_one_alias {
 }

 if (!defined $sendmail_cmd && !defined $smtp_server) {
-	my @sendmail_paths = qw( /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail );
-	push @sendmail_paths, map {"$_/sendmail"} split /:/, $ENV{PATH};
+	my @sendmail_paths = map {"$_/sendmail"} split /:/, $ENV{PATH};
 	foreach (@sendmail_paths) {
 		if (-x $_) {
 			$sendmail_cmd = $_;