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Re: Can we have qmail + postfix on the same server

From: abhishek jain (mailejain.com)
Date: Fri May 12 2006 - 13:59:53 CDT


On 5/8/06, Victor Duchovni <Victor.Duchovnimorganstanley.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:14:02PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
> >
> > > On 5/7/06, Magnus B?ck <magnusdsek.lth.se> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >On Sunday, May 07, 2006 at 16:29 CEST,
> > > > abhishek jain <mailejain.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> As i am using PLESK which install qmail by itself. Also i have
> > extra
> > > >> IP and control over DNS so it is ok for me to use the first option,
> >
> > > >> where i can use qmail on the main ip and postfix on another IP. I
> > have
> > > >> more experience with postfix and a newbie with qmail.
> > > >> Pl. give me more info or links where i can get more info regarding
> > that.
> > > >
> > > >http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#inet_interfaces
> > >
> > > As qmail is already installed, will i need to do something special to
> > > install Postfix i mean what are the steps now, or that just install
> > postfix
> > > and before starting it , just made the change in main.cf in
> > inet_interface
> > > and start postfix. Is that all i need to do.
> >
> > Well, you need to decide which of the two MTAs is responsible for
> > delivering
> > locally submitted email (via sendmail(1), rather than SMTP). At most one
> > MTA will perform this function. If it is not Postfix, make sure that
> > Postfix does not replace the /usr/{lib,sbin}/sendmail binary provided by
> > (or a symlink to...) qmail.
> >
> > Even if you did not need to change inet_interfaces, you would still
> > likely
> > need to make other main.cf changes. Your first Postfix install should
> > not
> > be an existing production MTA.
> >
> > --
> > Viktor.
> >
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>
  can anyone point me to a suitable tutorial for this. If there is one.
Also i did not meant by "Even if you did not need to change inet_interfaces,
you would still likely

need to make other main.cf changes. Your first Postfix install should not
 be an existing production MTA." as the guy above told me to change the
inet_interface.

Thanks,

 Abhishek jain