RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and removing sendmail

On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 20:43 -0800, Robert - elists wrote:

Hi, I want to build a spam gateway for my mail server using postfix. I issued an rpm -e sendmail and got the following output:

# rpm -e sendmail

error: Failed dependencies:

    /usr/sbin/sendmail is needed by (installed)

redhat-lsb-3.1-12.2.EL.el5.centos.i386

    smtpdaemon is needed by (installed) mutt-1.4.2.2-3.el5.i386

    smtpdaemon is needed by (installed) fetchmail-6.3.6-1.el5.i386

    smtpdaemon is needed by (installed) mdadm-2.5.4-3.el5.i386

How does one replace sendmail with postfix (I am hoping to install from source using the latest version)?

Thanks! jlc

You could

yum remove sendmail

then you could

yum install ********whatever****

---- yum install postfix switch-mail switch-mail #change to postfix then you could probably remove sendmail (never tried)

Craig