Common problems with Ubuntu

[geoffrey mendelson]

On May 13, 2010, at 1:37 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>>
>
> Just to protect myself against accusations of spreading "FUD": I  
> wasn't
> referring to what Debian has presently (which may be very different  
> from what
> existed back then) - I was referring to its past condition. I don't  
> know what
> the present condition is in regards to having multiple E-mail servers
> installed at the same time, but back when I tried "apt-get install  
> postfix"
> asked me if I wanted to remove qmail. This may no longer be the  
> case, and I'm
> sorry if I hadn't made myself clear enough.


Wait a minute. Having more than one MTA installed would be a disaster.  
Any sane packager would make postfix, qmail, sendmail, exim, etc all  
mutually exclusive. If you put enough effort you could install them  
all at the same times, but you would have to have different spool  
directories, (mail queues),
different binary directories, different control file directories and  
if any of them were accepting incoming connections, have them listen  
on different ports.

Since only one of them could use the standard locations and ports, it  
would be an undertaking of massive proportions that no one could  
anticipate in a package. You would have to install and configure each  
of them from the source files.

Sendmail is not very difficult to do it if you know what you are  
doing, I've only installed the others that I have used via package  
managers, so I can't say. Of course then there is the sendmail.cf  
file, something so complicated there is an m4 macro package to make it  
from a higher level config file.

Geoff.
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