On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:29:24 Anton Aylward wrote:
[...] If openSUSE could run without installing Postfix I'd be reluctant to suggest this, but it seems you have to install it, or Exim, even is your machine, like my laptop, only runs Thunderbird and has no need for a full blown MTA like Postfix. But if you are using a single machine then you get all this.
My 2 laptops run openSUSE 11.0 (recently upgraded from 10.3) and have never had an MTA (postfix, exim or sendmail) installed. I too run a local IMAP server (dovecot) and smtp server (using sendmail) that also happens to be my main workstation (simply because I've not been able to afford a dedicated machine for a mail server and I don't have any working old machines to press into service). So I can say with confidence that you *don't* need to have Postfix, Exim or Sendmail installed for openSuse to install and run. When you install, just deselect the "Mail Server" pattern in Yast... -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ===================================================