On 7/26/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > neidorff wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > A recap: I'm running FC3. I used qmailrocks.org to install qmail, > > spamassassin, clamav and many associated packages. I'm very happy > > with the system. > > > > I also had (turned it off) yum running on a daily basis to update my > > system. Little did I know that it would install new pacakages on its > > own! So, what happened was that yum installed exim and mail stopped. > > > > A very nice person on this list, as I was trying to debug this mess > > (and blaming the problem incorrectly on a perl update) noted that exim > > was running. I immediately stopped exim and mail is once again being > > processed through qmail, spamassassin and clamav. > > > > But, I still have a problem. Something that exim installed is > > blocking pop3 access from kmail. (I can see my local mail using > > squirrelmail or pine) The easy solution would be to uninstall exim > > (rpm -e), but when I try to do that, rpm complains that: > > > > error: Failed dependencies: > > /usr/sbin/sendmail is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386 > > smtpdaemon is needed by (installed) mdadm-1.6.0-2.i386 > > smtpdaemon is needed by (installed) mutt-1.4.1-10.i386 > > smtpdaemon is needed by (installed) fetchmail-6.2.5-7.fc3.1.i386 > > I understand what the error is telling me. Moving /usr/bin/sendmail > > out of the way is no problem. But smtpdaemon has me stumped. I > > looked at the list of files that exim installed (rpm -q --filesbypkg > > exim) but I can't find a reference to smtpdaemon. My question is: > > what do I do to get rid of exim (the smtpdaemon part, I think) without > > disrupting what I have installed? > > smtpdaemon is a "virtual" rpm dependency that can be satisfied by any > MTA rpm package. Currently it is being satisfied by exim on your system. > Ideally you should have a qmail RPM package that also "provides" this > dependency. You would have to build an RPM of qmail yourself though in > order to satisfy that dependency, due to qmail's licensing issues. > > In the absence of a qmail RPM providing this dependency, installing any > of exim, sendmail or postfix should be enough to keep RPM happy. So if > you install sendmail or postfix, you'll be able to get rid of exim. > > I have my doubts that exim is responsible for your pop issues though, > since the MTA and the pop server are completely different things. Which > pop server are you using? > I'm sorry to give a flaky answer, but whatever pop server is installed with qmailrocks. Courier does imap in this setup, I think it also does pop. I did a manual login to the pop server (#telnet localhost 110) and was able to successfully log into my account and list my mail. I assume that means that the pop server is working properly? Mark
