Just "emerge unmerge net-mail/ssmtp" and you'll be fine. Which mailserver is best is a religious war and has been hashed out on dozens of mailing lists/websites. I personally prefer postfix and it is much simpler to setup and manage, imho, than qmail.
Regards, Matt On Sunday 11 January 2004 04:19 pm, Ben Munat wrote: > Just went to emerge qmail and I got my first blocked package (lucky me, > I know). It's blocked by net-mail/ssmtp, which (not surprisingly) > belongs to sendmail. So, should I unmerge sendmail? (It seemed like > folks on this list liked qmail better than sendmail... anyone disagree?) > Will this cause problems with anything? (etcat -d ssmtp doesn't return > anything... etcat -d sendmail says drac depends on it...) Note that this > is for the remote web server that I'm working and not my home system. > > The gentoo docs just say something like "if ya get a blocked package, > you can get rid of it with emerge -C... oh, by the way, this might hose > your system." Okay, I'm exagerating a little, but there doesn't seem to > be much guidance on this. Hope you folks can help. > > b > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Matthew Marlowe, DeployLinux.Net Consulting http://www.deploylinux.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
