Sendmail and SSMTP Fighting for virtual-mta

[Telamon]

I'm having problems when I emerge sendmail on some of my Gentoo boxes. Basically, it's emerging SSMTP after emerging sendmail, which is overwriting the sendmail binary with the SSMTP symbolic link. I edited /etc/make.profile/virtuals and set virtual/mta to net-mail/sendmail instead of net-mail/ssmtp, but the problem still persists. My fix has just been to re-emerge sendmail after ssmtp is installed, but I'd rather not have to remember to do this each time I do an upgrade.

Any ideas?

[iZm]

I had the same problem but with Postfix. What I did was to edit, "/var/cache/edb/virtuals" and replace:

net-mail/ssmtp

with:

net-mail/postfix

I havn't had the problem since.

Hope this helps.
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[iZm]

Ooops!!, I should read more thoroughly before I post. Looks like you already tried something very similar. My problem has not returned after doing this though.

Telemon eh. Anything to do with the small UK IT company ?.
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There is no substitute for good manners, except, perhaps, fast reflexes.

[Telamon]

Thanks for the tip, I found the virtuals file in /etc/make.profile but missed the one in cache, that's probably the problem.

As for the nick, nope, it's from The Wheel of Time series of books by Robert Jordan.

[aaronjb]

Oldish thread I know but I just had the same problem. Following a combination of your advice above fixed it - what I did was: