Re: Re: CentOS 5 and removing sendmail

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Joseph L. Casale wrote:
No --- Don't --- Install another MTA before you try to remove sendmail.
Warned you have been!

Well, unless you install postfix first, then system-switch-mail, then execute switch-mail, how does the stuff that needs sendmail know what to use? If you take out sendmail first, it removes other dependent stuff, but if you install postfix and the switch-mail util, when you remove sendmail it goes away without complaint.

'Stuff that needs sendmail' normally executes a command named sendmail, usually as /usr/sbin/sendmail. Installing postfix will supply one, and system-switch-mail manipulates which one is active if you have both through a symlink scheme. If you try to run something that needs sendmail without a working /usr/bin/sendmail program, it will fail to deliver anything but your system won't crash and burn.

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx

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