Sendmail

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Jan 21 14:57:46 UTC 2006


On Saturday 21 Jan 2006 13:59, Chris wrote:
>
> Your sendmail issue may not be sendmail at all. In an install of
> Postfix (from a BSD point of view) Postfix creates a file called
> sendmail. I don't recall it it renames the original or not (I assume
> it does).
>
> If the install of Postfix is somewhat the same as BSD, then you still
> are running postfix. If you installed postfix via source tarball,
> there should be a readme on what's installed and where.
>
> Undo what the readme says. If you installed via rpm, I would think
> removing the rpm and perhaps an updatedb/reboot is in order.
>
> Next, running setup and looking at the services might tell you
> something also.
>
> Just some ideas from a Linux newb
>
I want postfix to handle this.  I would think that sendmail could just 
be removed, couldn't it?

BTW, services looked OK except that sendmail was set to load at bootup.  
I've disabled this and stopped sendmail, so we'll see what happens.

Anne




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