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evoweiss
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 Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 10:48 am Post subject: Emerge wants to install mailwrapper and ssmtp |
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Hi all,
In checking whether any packages are to be updated I noticed that when I emerge -uDp world that it wants to install two new packages:
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] net-mail/mailwrapper-0.1
[ebuild N ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.60.7
Using emerge -s to get an idea of what the packages are for it seems that mailwrapper is a wrapper for my MTA and ssmtp an MTA.
Is there any reason I should let emerge install these programs and, if so, any hints on the easiest way to migrate to ssmtp?
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Alex |
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bmichaelsen
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 11:13 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Is there any reason I should let emerge install these programs and, if so, any hints on the easiest way to migrate to ssmtp? |
a) You need some MTA, e.g. for cron
b) If you didnt choose another MTA - ssmtp is the default on gentoo, because it is absolutely minimalistic. |
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evoweiss
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 11:33 am Post subject: |
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| bmichaelsen wrote: | | Quote: | | Is there any reason I should let emerge install these programs and, if so, any hints on the easiest way to migrate to ssmtp? |
a) You need some MTA, e.g. for cron
b) If you didnt choose another MTA - ssmtp is the default on gentoo, because it is absolutely minimalistic. |
Ah, my bad, I guess I should have clarified that I'm already running postfix.
In any event, I installed both programs and things seem to working as they normally do.
Is there any reason to prefer postfix to ssmtp or the other way around? Mind you, I'm happy if things work, but if ssmtp gives me the same or better security, but takes up less space, is more efficient, etc., well, I would only be too happy to emerge -C postfix.
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b0fh
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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I've also postfix installed as mta, but portage want's to install ssmtp, too... If I remember there's some "virtual/mta" option in some file where I can set postfix as mta, does some of you remember where?
Or should I simply inject ssmtp and not care at all (I just don't want to mess up my mail-config again  )... |
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evoweiss
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| b0fh wrote: | I've also postfix installed as mta, but portage want's to install ssmtp, too... If I remember there's some "virtual/mta" option in some file where I can set postfix as mta, does some of you remember where?
Or should I simply inject ssmtp and not care at all (I just don't want to mess up my mail-config again )... |
I think the file you're talking about is /etc/mailer.conf. The following lines in mine suggest that ssmtp is now being used as the mta:
# Execute the "real" sendmail program from ssmtp,
# named /usr/sbin/ssmtp
#
sendmail /usr/sbin/ssmtp
send-mail /usr/sbin/ssmtp
mailq /usr/sbin/ssmtp
newaliases /usr/sbin/ssmtp
Further on down you see something that appears to be a way to configure it to use postfix instead:
# Execute the "real" sendmail program from postfix,
# named /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
#
#sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
#send-mail /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
#mailq /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
#newaliases /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
I suspect that, should you uncomment the latter and comment out the further, that should work.
For the record, I didn't have any problems after installing those programs and running etc-update.
One thing I do, as I have been burned by etc-update in the past, is to keep a backup of all the /etc files on hand. It's useful because, should something get fscked up, you can always revert back to the original. As I don't have a floppy drive, I just copy the /etc directory to /etc.backup.
Hope this helps!
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Alex |
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SCHULZISCOMING
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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I really wonder why someone would install a ssmtp, when he/she uses a postfix (or another) mta?!
I do not need some voodoo-ssmtp on my systems. Please Gentoo people, consider: gentoo admins are really aware of using a sufficient mtas. Please do not think, everyone is a wimp. I hate to install ssmtp by demand and then re-install my postfix-mta. This really sucks (sorry).
I DO NOT NEED SSMTP!
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bmichaelsen
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:44 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I hate to install ssmtp by demand and then re-install my postfix-mta. |
Install postfix first - it will fill the MTA-virtual and ssmtp will not be pulled in. |
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b0fh
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:24 am Post subject: |
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| It also seems to be fixed, at least my one doesn't want to emerge ssmtp after an rsync any more. |
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