postix and ssmtp conflict?!

Azzuron · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 7:08 am Post subject: postix and ssmtp conflict?!

I need to install postfix for my server to be able to send mail through php i think...so i went to do that, and it says that its blocked by SSMTP. I am not sure what uses this, how can i find out. it says the two packages conflict...does anyone know why they are conflicting. What options do i have here? Thanks again all.
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Sequentious · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 7:16 am Post subject:

Your options are to remove ssmtp and emerge postfix. If you configure postfix properly you wont have an issue.

ssmtp assumes the command 'sendmail' (as does sendmail and postfix, hence why they block eachother). It does not run any local servers like postfix or sendmail though, it only provides the following functionality:

Azzuron · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 7:35 am Post subject:

Excillent. Thank you much

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Azzuron · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 8:19 am Post subject:

well its installed i gotta work on the config. i tried that echo command you gave and it said sendmail doesnt support -s, thats with postfix not ssmtp. PHP seems to get stuck on mail() also.
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Sequentious · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 1:32 pm Post subject:

Well I can't swear by my syntax, I dont often use sendmail on a command line.

I must also tackle setting up postfix, but I need it for local delivery only to a user's maildir (thinking of just firewalling port 25 off)
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Azzuron · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 3:07 pm Post subject:

well eitherway, i think the php mail() function would use sendmail correctly. It gets stuck on the mail function in any of my scripts
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scottro · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 9:48 pm Post subject:

Quick note on this, which might help someone.

ssmtp seems to be emerged as a dependency of procmail. As I prefer nbsmtp (no-brainer smtp, which fits me)

I just do something like

Azzuron · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 11:28 pm Post subject:

Cools

. I was wondering how it got installed... Anyway i got it to function now. PHP sends mail. it was getting stuck because (Der) i forgot to turn it on :roll:

. So that done, time to move on to MySQL which wont accept connections from MySQL Front

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scottro · Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 1:18 pm Post subject:

Now this is interesting--today, looking at ebuilds here and there, it seems as if it's been changed--procmail will now install my beloved nbsmtp as a dependency. So, if anyone has been following this thread, and prefers ssmtp keep that in mind. (Also, not sure what might be blocked by nbsmtp--possibly one of the larger mail clients, like postfix, etc )

Hope this is of use to someone

Scott

Sequentious · Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 4:17 am Post subject:

Heres something else to add. I just got a laptop through school with windows XP on it, so naturally the first thing I did was set aside a few gigs for gentoo.

While going through the install process (figured i'd give 1.3b a try) i got to the part where you chose a cron daemon. Since i dunno the difference, i went with vcrom like the install guide suggested. when i did an "emerge -p vcron", ssmtp was one of two dependant packages to be installed.
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scottro · Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 2:58 pm Post subject:

That is interesting. I just tried emerge -p here, (version 1.2) but nothing. As 1.4 should be out in the next week or so, I think I"ll just, rather than running my install script overnight, just do emerge system, and then do some emerge -p and see where (if anywhere) ssmtp comes in.

Thanks, that's handy to know if it's going to be the case--because I might have tried vcron, just left it overnight come back and found that it was blocked by nbsmtp.

Scott

Sequentious · Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 4:03 pm Post subject:

Actually, it depends on virtual/mta, so a suppose any mta should do.
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scottro · Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 9:35 pm Post subject:

Today, I went to put 1.4 on another sacrificial box--again it seems as if ssmtp is bound to postfix.

(This was a stage 3 tarball, however as I was impatient, so perhaps, had I done an emerge rsync first, it might have been different.

Scott

rac · Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 9:38 pm Post subject:

I don't know if it is safe to edit this file manually or not, but the virtual/mta line in /var/cache/edb/virtuals might have something to do with it.
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scottro · Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2002 10:35 pm Post subject:

I should really try editing it on the next install I do from a stage 3, as that doesn't mean many hours lost--any brave souls here? When 1.4 actually comes out, I may just tar up my /home (in an old kit bag?) wipe everything and start from scratch.

Right now, on all machines, it's saying nbsmtp---I'm assuming that's because I've unmerged ssmtp and emerged nbsmtp, but <shrug>