Re: weird sendmail problem



On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:23PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:

Note that I did leave /etc/mail in place, but I ran apt-get remove
sendmail, removed the init files, and so forth. Apparantly I missed
something.

You should run "dpkg --purge sendmail" to remove all traces of the
package. Providing you have installed an alternate mailer such as
postfix, nullmailer, or exim/exim4.

(Debian insists that *some* mailer is installed, so that cron mails
etc work.)

Steve
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