Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-29 Thread Joe
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:42:58 -0500 Harry rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Joe j...@jretrading.com writes: 1) If you need a mail server but have no previous experience, have heard of sendmail and are unaware of anything else, then yes, I'll join in the recommendations that you pick a different

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Joe j...@jretrading.com writes: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:42:58 -0500 Harry rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Joe j...@jretrading.com writes: 1) If you need a mail server but have no previous experience, have heard of sendmail and are unaware of anything else, then yes, I'll join in the

Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Harry Putnam
NOTE: Already posted on unbuntu list... but due to it being something of an urgent matter... and not seeing responses there... I'm posting here too since the tools are all debian tools. - - --=-- - --- - Due to unbridled personal bungling,

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:24:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: NOTE: Already posted on unbuntu list... but due to it being something of an urgent matter... and not seeing responses there... I'm posting here too since the tools are all debian tools. - - --=--

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:24:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: I inadvertantly deleted /etc/init.d/sendmail. Well I thought I'd just reinstall sendmail to re-acquire that file. ... Any attempt to uninstall it tells me it is not installed, any attempt to install it ends with an error that

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread mark
NOTE: Already posted on unbuntu list... but due to it being something of an urgent matter... and not seeing responses there... I'm posting here too since the tools are all debian tools. - - --=-- - --- - Due to unbridled personal

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/28/2011 01:39 PM, Carl Fink wrote: However my preferred method: sudo aptitude install postfix Best: sudo apt-get install exim4 ;-) -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com writes: However my preferred method: sudo aptitude install postfix Postfix is a drop-in replacement for sendmail that can be configured by mere mortals. Do you know of a case where postfix was made to use Smarthost smtp.comcast.net? I'd probably drop

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes: So, can anyone recommend some method to get past this, and get the pkgs fully installed and configured? I imagine that, while configuring sendmail, dpkg tries to stop the sendmail process by invoking the init script. The init script isn't

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Joe
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:24:22 -0500 Harry Putnam harry.p...@gmail.com wrote: Due to unbridled personal bungling, I've created a nasty mess while installing sendmail. I've never been near sendmail, so I can't help directly with the problem. I've seen the other replies, and: 1) If you need a

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:28:29AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com writes: However my preferred method: sudo aptitude install postfix Postfix is a drop-in replacement for sendmail that can be configured by mere mortals. Do you know of a case where

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Alan Chandler
On 28/09/11 11:39, Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:24:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: I inadvertantly deleted /etc/init.d/sendmail. Well I thought I'd just reinstall sendmail to re-acquire that file. ... Any attempt to uninstall it tells me it is not installed, any attempt to

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:24:22 -0500, Harry wrote in message 87bou51bp5@newsguy.com: NOTE: Already posted on unbuntu list... but due to it being something of an urgent matter... and not seeing responses there... I'm posting here too since the tools are all debian tools. -

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Harry
Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes: Do you know of a case where postfix was made to use Smarthost smtp.comcast.net? I'd probably drop sendmail after years of use in favor of postfix, but the several times I tried to configure it for comcasts authentication, I failed miserably.

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-28 Thread Harry
Joe j...@jretrading.com writes: 1) If you need a mail server but have no previous experience, have heard of sendmail and are unaware of anything else, then yes, I'll join in the recommendations that you pick a different one. It is notoriously the most difficult to configure. The thread has