Re: Passing local delivery to qmail (instead of exim)

Erwin Hoffmann <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Nov 2016 16:22:40 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.qmail.general
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Hi Dan,


> Am 02.11.2016 um 15:48 schrieb Dan Ritter <[email protected]>:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 12:35:06PM +0100, BAGI Ákos wrote:
>> Hi List!
>> 
>> I have a running qmail server.
>> I use cron scripts to monitor the system and send the
>> result to my qmail mailbox.
>> But on Jessie the local delivery is made by jessie.
>> How can I change it to qmail?
> 
> Debian Jessie, I presume?
> 
> service exim4 stop
> apt-get install exim4- lsb-invalid-mta
> rm -f /usr/lib/sendmail
> rm -f /usr/sbin/sendmail
> # and now link in qmail binaries from where you put them
> ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail
> ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
> 
> Note the unusual usage of apt-get install, where we specify a
> package to be removed with a trailing - as well as a package
> to be installed (to satisfy dependencies for an MTA).

Great hint.

a) It is required to remove the exim4 application entirely from the system, thus

b) an *upgrade* will not recognize the app and will not reinstall it; because otherwise

c) exim will be re-installed and conflicts with qmail.

I found the same situation and exim did a local delivery on 'localhost' while qmail did the rest.

I fact. exim was bound to localhost while qmail (which was started later) took the other ports.

Best regards.
--eh.

> 
> -dsr-
> 
> 
> 

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