emerging postfix <-> ssmtp blocked

ptheborg

After completing the Gentoo install the first program I wanted to emerge was postfix.
But ssmtp blocked the emerge. So I've unmerged ssmtp and emerged postfix, everything still works but isn't there one package that lost it's dependency??

Do I need to reconfigure anything??

Thx in advance.
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nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 596 Location: USA

I ran into this before with sendmail. I think the block is just because some program is needed to deliver local mail (for cron jobs, security reports, etc.), so it flags ssmtp as a required package for this since it's the default. Removing it to install sendmail (or postfix) will be fine because you'll still have an MTA, which'll satisfy any dependencies.

ptheborg · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 1:52 pm Post subject:

a MTA??? what's a MTA?? :S
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delta407 · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 4:18 pm Post subject:

Moving to Networking forum, as it has to do with running a server, etc.

MTA stands for Mail Transfer Agent.
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ptheborg · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 10:10 pm Post subject:

ok thx
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