[rhelv6-list] Removing sendmail - how to satisfy MTA requirement?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 26 November 2013 09:57, Paul Reilly <pareilly at tcd.ie> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The version of postfix which comes with RHEL 6 is very old, postfix
> version 2.6, and does not contain the features I want. So I have installed
> postfix 2.10  from source code.  Next, I would like to remove sendmail from
> this server, and use the source compiled postfix as our MTA.  However if I
> try to remove sendmail, yum tries to remove lot's of other critical
> packages like crontabs and redhat-lsb-core.  How do I remove sendmail and
> let the package manager know that I have an MTA installed, so it doesn't
> try and remove these packages?
>
>
>
Your best bet is to build an rpm of postfix with the version of postfix you
want. Then remove the sendmail mta.  Not a lot of sites have 2.10 rpms but
I found source rpms at http://packages.oostergo.net/postfix-2.10/src/ [I
have not looked over them or not but they would be where I would start.]

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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