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Re: Installation Questions

From: Sahil Tandon (sahiltandon.net)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2007 - 12:30:52 CST


* Joseph L. Casale <jcasaleActiveNetwerx.com> [2007-12-02 10:46:51 -0700]:

> Hi,
> I am a new user to postfix and Linux. I am using CentOS 5 and even with a minimal installation, sendmail is installed with other applications dependant on it.
>
> I downloaded the postfix-2.5-20071130.tar.gz and compiled it then installed it making the user and group before. It stated that it removed sendmail as the default and now postfix is.
>
> How does one verify any dependency on sendmail so I can safely uninstall it?

Postfix installs a Sendmail compatability interface, so you can safely remove the actual package.

        http://www.postfix.org/sendmail.1.html

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Sahil Tandon <sahiltandon.net>