fedora system-switch-mail alternative

Guys, any of you knows if there is a way to change the mail transport agent
in fedora, from sendmail to postfix for example without using
system-switch-mail, what would be the manual way to do that?

Thanks..

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David A. Paredes R.

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 15:57 -0500, David A. Paredes Rios wrote:
> Guys, any of you knows if there is a way to change the mail transport
> agent in fedora, from sendmail to postfix for example without using
> system-switch-mail, what would be the manual way to do that?

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yum install postfix
chkconfig postfix on
chkconfig sendmail off
service sendmail stop
service postfix start

Craig

Thanks Craig, actually thats are the steps that system-switch-mail do?

Thanks..

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Craig White  wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 15:57 -0500, David A. Paredes Rios wrote:
> > Guys, any of you knows if there is a way to change the mail transport
> > agent in fedora, from sendmail to postfix for example without using
> > system-switch-mail, what would be the manual way to do that?
>
> yum install postfix
> chkconfig postfix on
> chkconfig sendmail off
> service sendmail stop
> service postfix start
>
> Craig
>
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[Sam Sharpe]

On 1 October 2010 22:08, David A. Paredes Rios  wrote:
> Thanks Craig, actually thats are the steps that system-switch-mail do?

That is roughly what system-switch mail does. This is it enabling sendmail:

os.system('/usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta
/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail')
        os.system('/sbin/service postfix stop 2>/dev/null >/dev/null')
        os.system('/sbin/service exim stop 2>/dev/null >/dev/null')
        os.system('/sbin/chkconfig postfix off 2>/dev/null >/dev/null')
        os.system('/sbin/chkconfig exim off 2>/dev/null >/dev/null')
        os.system('/sbin/service sendmail start 2>/dev/null >/dev/null')
        os.system('/sbin/chkconfig sendmail on 2>/dev/null >/dev/null')

You can read /usr/share/system-switch-mail/functions.py for more details.

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Sam

Useful, thanks. guys

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> On 1 October 2010 22:08, David A. Paredes Rios  wrote:
> > Thanks Craig, actually thats are the steps that system-switch-mail do?
>
> That is roughly what system-switch mail does. This is it enabling sendmail:
>    os.system('/usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta
>
> /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail')
>        os.system('/sbin/service postfix stop 2>/dev/null >/dev/null')
>        os.system('/sbin/service exim stop 2>/dev/null >/dev/null')
>        os.system('/sbin/chkconfig postfix off 2>/dev/null >/dev/null')
>        os.system('/sbin/chkconfig exim off 2>/dev/null >/dev/null')
>        os.system('/sbin/service sendmail start 2>/dev/null >/dev/null')
>        os.system('/sbin/chkconfig sendmail on 2>/dev/null >/dev/null')
>
> You can read /usr/share/system-switch-mail/functions.py for more details.
>
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[Tom Horsley]

Never heard of system-switch-mail, I've always used:

alternatives --config mta

and fed it the number that matched postfix when it
asks which alternative.

P.S. I notice on F14 beta, there is no postfix on the
DVD, so might need to proceed that with a

yum install postfix

Never heard about "alternatives" useful too i tough that alternatives way is only from ".deb" distros.
Thanks
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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 17:25:46 
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Subject: Re: fedora system-switch-mail alternative

Never heard of system-switch-mail, I've always used:

alternatives --config mta

and fed it the number that matched postfix when it
asks which alternative.

P.S. I notice on F14 beta, there is no postfix on the
DVD, so might need to proceed that with a

yum install postfix