Can I remove sendmail?

[Andre Costa]

Hi,

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:55 PM, <sergiocmailbox-fedorausers at yahoo.com.br>wrote:

>
>
> --- Em qua, 30/5/12, jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> escreveu:
>
> > De: jdow <jdow at earthlink.net>
> > Assunto: Re: Can I remove sendmail?
> > Para: sergiocmailbox-fedorausers at yahoo.com.br, "Community support for
> Fedora users" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > Data: Quarta-feira, 30 de Maio de 2012, 12:04
> > On 2012/05/30 04:58, sergiocmailbox-fedorausers at yahoo.com.br
> > wrote:
> > > Hi, we have the sendmail.service enabled by default
> > even in the minimal installation.
> > > I only use Thunderbird as my email client.
> > > May I uninstall sendmail? Is it needed for something
> > I'm not aware of?
> > >
> > > Regards.
> >
> > Logwatch and other periodic email messages from the system
> > to the root
> > user (or his designee) will get lost. I embraced this folly
> > years ago
> > and had to reinstall SOME mail program. I suppose PostFix
> > would do as
> > well as SendMail.
> >
> > {^_^}
> >
>
> Oh yes, that's what I had in the back of my mind when I asked the question.
> So back to enable it again.
>
>
Just for the record, I used to do this after every Fedora installation:

yum install postfix
yum remove sendmail
chkconfig postfix on
service postfix start

(well, I still do this -- just did for F17 -- but now 'chkconfig' and
'service' should be replaced by their systemd counterparts)

Works like a charm, as jdow posted, postfix is configured to replace
sendmail completely.

Regards,

Andre
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