Re: [hylafax-users] SendEmail

["Stefan Wagner" <stefan-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> then I'd suggest looking in aptitude under the mail-transfer-agent
> virtual package to see if sendmail is listed as installed there, also
> look under hylafax and see what it depends on.  if it depends directly
> on "postfix" and not "postfix | mail-transfer-agent" then report a bug
> to debian.  though it's possible that the maintainer only wants to
> support postfix, in which case you are left with installing hylafax
> manually from sources, which is what i do anyway.

I haven't checked in detail, but as the debian hylafax packages work
flawlessly together with exim4 as the selected mail transfer agent (debian
lenny, setup with aptitude) I don't see such a package dependency with
postfix.

However: If the original poster installed everything via a meta package,
there may be that hylafax was installed automatically via package
dependencies. In such a case one has to double check that packages needed
are marked to be kept. With aptitude this can be done very nicely.

Anyway I have a question to the original poster: Is there a certain reason
that you want sendmail as your MTA? The newer ones as postfix or exim4
provide the same capabilities and are much easier to configure. (Ever hacked
sendmail.cf?) For the sake of compatibility they provide a 1:1 replacement
of /bin/sendmail, so you don't need to change other programs or scripts.

Kind regards

Stefan


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