[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Following helpful replies from Kent(ktb) and Steve Gran to a >request under the subject of 'email options', I've been looking >further into the possibilities. > >I want to try qmail which I've found and built. It will not install >as it conflicts with ssmtp - seems I can have only one MTA. >Dselect will not uninstall ssmtp as the MUA's 'will feel lonely'. >So presumably I will have to either temporarily remove the MUA's >and replace ssmtp with qmail ( I haven't tried that, but, even if it >works, I don't like the idea as I want to try other MTA's until I >find one I understand and like) or force dpkg to uninstall ssmtp. > >Both the man page and dpkg --help are unclear to me, and I don't >want to risk damage. Could someone help with the precise syntax to >force remove and purge ( ssmtp in this case ).
(1) Make a dummy qmail package with equivs, and have it provide mail-transport-agent; (2) dpkg --install qmail.deb (3) Watch dpkg automatically remove ssmtp in favour of qmail. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]