OK I just deinstalled Sendmail, and now am not getting security notifications any
more. My actual goal is to close the SMTP listening port on the outside firewall
NIC.
Tried to reinstall Sendmail, and it conflicts with Postfix. Rather not override.
What should I think about this? (this is a clean M7.0-2 install)
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Alex V Flinsch wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > I've just installed Mandrake 7.0 and have discovered that users cannot
> > receive email -- not even from other users on the same machine. The
> > directory /var/spool/mail/ remains empty and undelivered mail piles up in
> > /var/spool/postfix/deferred. The command qmail -v gives an "unknown mail
> > transport error" for each piece of undelivered mail. The postfix
> > documentation leads me to believe that it should work out of the box for
> > my simple system (single-user connected to the network by ethernet) with
> > no additional configuration.
>
> Did you upgrade from 6.0 or earlier? If so you might be having the same problem
> I had when upgrading fromn 6.0 to 6.1, it seems that both sendmail and postfix
> were on the system. Try the following:
>
> 1 - stop postfix -- /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix stop
> 2 - backup ypur mail queue somewhere
> 3 - Uninstall sendmail -- rpm -e sendmail
> 4 - Uninstall postfix -- rpm -e postfix
> 5 - Reinstall postfix from the cd -- rpm -Uhv
> postfix-someversioninformation.rpm (you will have to replace the
> someversioninformation with something else)
> 6 - restore the backedup mail queues from step 2
> 7 - start postfix -- /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix stop
>
> and see if that helps
>
> --
> Alex
> (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
