On Saturday 21 Jan 2006 17:36, Craig White wrote: > personally, I would backup copies of any config files that you > altered - i.e. > > cp /etc/postfix/main.cf /etc/postfix/main.cf.saved > > and then remove the symlink you created... > > rm /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix > > and then reinstall postfix... > > rpm -ivh --force \ > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fed >ora/RPMS/postfix-2.2.2-2.i386.rpm > > and that should fix things > I cleared things out as you said, and I had already made backups of main.cf and transport, so I simply used yum to remove both sendmail and postfix, then re-installed them. Both of the config files were saved during the install as .rpmnew - which is impressive. > but I would recomend that you also install the system-switch-mail > package and run that to 'bless' postfix that I described earlier > I've done that, and used it. If I'd understood what it would do a little earlier I would have saved myself a lot of troublt ;-) Thanks, Craig, James, and the person who has been sending me helpful off-list messages. This workstation has just received a couple of messages from the box I was working on, that have been queued since this afternoon, so obviously all is now well. Anne
