Common problems with Ubuntu

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

"Installed at the same time" and "operational at the same time" are
not the same thing. This is one of the things that "alternatives"
helps to achieve - you switch between MTAs with a single command
(assuming they are all properly configured, etc.). I suppose you also
need to stop and start the corresponding services.

I feel like I'm defending "alternatives". I do not intend to. IMHO, it
is a rather horrible kludge, but it is not the problem... ;-)

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