From: Brian Mathis (brian.mathisgmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2007 - 08:25:32 CST

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Installing postfix on CentOS is a matter of:
yum install postfix
yum remove sendmail

Those are the only commands you need to use. Unless you have a
specific need to compile postfix, please use the yum/rpm packages
instead.

There is rarely a need to compile a package when using a distro like
Centos, and compiling is actually a bad thing, as it will break the
package management tools.

On Dec 2, 2007 12:46 PM, Joseph L. Casale <jcasaleactivenetwerx.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Thanks for the noob patience :)
>
> jlc
>

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