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