Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1695 mails)

[Rodney Baker <rodney.baker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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...

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