Sendmail

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Jan 21 15:10:15 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 14:57 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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.
----
that's the idea...

# turn off sendmail
chkconfig sendmail off
service sendmail stop

# turn on postfix
chkconfig postfix on
service postfix restart

or the really easy way...

yum install system-switch-mail
/usr/sbin/system-switch-mail

Craig




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