On Mon 21 Jul 2014 01:55:00 PM CDT, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Can I ask the powers that be, why I am being somewhat forced to use an openSuSE supported MTA? I am running openSuSE 13.1 x64 and using YaST I cannot get it to NOT install an MTA. I am using the Apache James email server as my MTA and I want to use the mini-sendmail version of sendmail.
So I go to YaST and tell it to uninstall Postfix. It happily does so, but then it installs Exim on me, and a different kernel. (this is done in order to satisfy dependency requirements)
I DON'T want Exim so I tell YaST to uninstall Exim which it happily does, but then it installs MSMTP-MTA on me, and a different kernel. (this is done in order to satisfy dependency requirements)
I DON'T want MSMTP-MTA so I tell YaST to uninstall MSMTP-MTA which it happily does, but then it installs BSD sendmail. (this is done in order to satisfy dependency requirements)
I DON'T want BSD sendmail so I tell YaST to uninstall BSD sendmail which it happily does, but then it goes back and installs MSMTP-MTA on me. (this is done in order to satisfy dependency requirements)
And now I am going in circles. I DON'T want one of these MTA's, why am I being forced into having to have one? They will conflict with using the Apache James email server and mini-sendmail which as I said, they are the ones I WANT to use!
It also seems to me that if I don't want ANY MTA on my system I ought to have that option. I may not want it to ever send email to anyone! PERIOD! Is there a different route I should take to get these MTA's off my system and let whatever programs need one, to use the one I want to provide instead?
Marc.....
Hi Just disable and stop the postfix service.... systemctl stop postfix.service systemctl disable postfix.service If your worried about a few megabits of disk space...well.... -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) 3.10.1 Kernel 3.11.10-17-desktop up 1 day 6:38, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 0.23, 0.23 CPU Intel® B840@1.9GHz | GPU Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org