[CentOS] CentOS 5 and removing sendmail

Sun Dec 2 04:54:00 UTC 2007
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 20:43 -0800, Robert - elists wrote:
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> 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:
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> # rpm -e sendmail
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> error: Failed dependencies:
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>         /usr/sbin/sendmail is needed by (installed)
> redhat-lsb-3.1-12.2.EL.el5.centos.i386
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>         smtpdaemon is needed by (installed) mutt-1.4.2.2-3.el5.i386
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>         smtpdaemon is needed by (installed) fetchmail-6.3.6-1.el5.i386
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>         smtpdaemon is needed by (installed) mdadm-2.5.4-3.el5.i386
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> How does one replace sendmail with postfix (I am hoping to install
> from source using the latest version)?
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> Thanks!
> jlc
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> You could
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> yum remove sendmail
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> then you could 
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> yum install ********whatever****
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yum install postfix switch-mail
switch-mail #change to postfix
then you could probably remove sendmail (never tried)

Craig