Scripting changing sending MTA

[Todd Zullinger]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> In the Postfix install documentation I found that I need to do the
> following:
>
> /usr/sbin/alternatives --config mta
>
> And select '2' to switch to Postfix.
>
> Is there a way to put this into an install script?
>
> Something simple like:
>
> echo 2| /usr/sbin/alternatives --config mta

Use the --set option rather than --config.  Something like:

    alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix

Or, do as Jason suggested and simply remove the sendmail package and
ensure postfix is the only MTA installed.

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