Re: postfix

Just want to make a remark, i ran into some trouble installing postfix,
fetchmail and procmail.

From what i learned, the Gentoo base install already include ssmtp which
is mainly a script called sendmail that can send an email to a remote
smtp server (i think). Portage refuse to install postfix the first time
because Postfix also have its sendmail script. You must uninstall ssmtp
first then emerge postfix...

...but here's the catch, when you install procmail (or fetchmail, i
don't remember) it re-install ssmtp as a dependency. So basically it
screws up your postfix install and you can have some problem. You have
to re-emerge postfix after that.

Hope this helps...


Louis-Philippe Brochu

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 19:54, Bobby R. Cox wrote:
> You need to remove it.  I believe it is ssmtp or something like that.  I 
> didn't install that either, but it was there.  Must be part of the base 
> install or something.  Remove it and emerge postfix and all should be good.
> 
> Bobby C.
> 
> Yancey B. Jones wrote:
> 
> >I am trying to emerge postfix and I get an error that says:
> >
> >The virtual/mta package conflicts with this package and both can't be
> >installed on the same system together.
> >
> >I did a stage3 install and I have emerged nothing else as of yet.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Yancey
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