Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-20 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > postfix was designed from the beginning with security in mind. And it's > > easier to configure than sendmail or qmail. > > Periodically I begin to believe in such statements only to after the > installation each time find myself desperately searc

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-20 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
jpb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > postfix was designed from the beginning with security in mind. And it's > easier to configure than sendmail or qmail. Periodically I begin to believe in such statements only to after the installation each time find myself desperately searching up and down the do

RE: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 12-Jun-2000 Chris Mason wrote: > I'm trying to install postfix and remove exim, I am having a problem because > "apt-get remove exim" fails because there are dependent programs. I don't > care, I would like to force the removal and then install postfix but even > "apt-get -f remove exim" fails.

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:33:41PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > I'm trying to install postfix and remove exim, I am having a problem because > "apt-get remove exim" fails because there are dependent programs. I don't > care, I would like to force the removal and then install postfix but even > "apt

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread jpb
Sven Burgener wrote: > > >I had no problems ditching exim and installing postfix a few months > ago. > > What advantages / plus-points does postfix have over exim? > I have only been using exim for a week now. Ran sendmail before, but as > I wasn't able to configure it to my (simple) needs, I swi

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > When I try to run dselect, it wants to uninstall packages that I have > installed myself, so that won't do. You should try to fix that problem. But do run dselect update first, to make sure apt and dselect agree in the package available file... (also, mak

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > >I had no problems ditching exim and installing postfix a few months > ago. > > What advantages / plus-points does postfix have over exim? Secure design, using chroot jails (even in Debian's default installation), only the postfix 'master' daemon runs a

RE: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Chris Mason
2000 2:48 PM To: Henrique M Holschuh; Debian-User Subject: Re: dependencies rpoblem >I had no problems ditching exim and installing postfix a few months ago. What advantages / plus-points does postfix have over exim? I have only been using exim for a week now. Ran sendmail before, but as

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Sven Burgener
>I had no problems ditching exim and installing postfix a few months ago. What advantages / plus-points does postfix have over exim? I have only been using exim for a week now. Ran sendmail before, but as I wasn't able to configure it to my (simple) needs, I switched to exim. TIA Sven

Re: dependencies rpoblem

2000-06-12 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > I'm trying to install postfix and remove exim, I am having a problem because > "apt-get remove exim" fails because there are dependent programs. I don't > care, I would like to force the removal and then install postfix but even > "apt-get -f remove exim"