On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Michal Kubecek wrote:

Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:43:06 +0200 From: Michal Kubecek To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Install sendmail on SLES8

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:33:08AM +0200, Andreas Rother wrote:

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I have problems to autoinstall a system with sendmail properly. I specify sendmail in my config, but postfix is always installed in addition to sendmail. So postfix is running and the sendmail installation is broken. To fix it, I have to remove postfix and re-install sendmail. That's not so nice for an automatic installtion :-)

I had the same problem since SuSE 8.1. In my opinion, the problem is that postfix is part of the 'minimal' selection, so that it installs even if you remove it manually. The only solution I found is to create my own selection file and use it as a base selection.

This is because inside SuSE postfix is the preferred mailer and is part of the Minimal selection as mentioned above, If you just replace postfix with sendmail in the selection files everything will work fine Best regards Hubba