Installing Kolab so exim4 don't must to uninstall?

Christoph Wickert wickert at kolabsys.com
Mon Jul 18 11:18:16 CEST 2011


On Monday 18 July 2011 09:47:26 Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> > Christoph Wickert <wickert at kolabsys.com> writes:
> > > On Saturday 16 July 2011 16:50:09 Csanyi Pal wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >> 
> > >> on my Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze operating system if I want to install
> > >> kolabd debian package then exim4 must be uninstall first.
> > > 
> > > But it's not clear to me what exactly you are trying to achieve. I
> > > mean, *why* do you want to keep another mta? Kolab uses a complex
> > > postfix setup and runs 3 instances of postfix. Sure, you can replace
> > > one or the other but you will will loose all the configuration kolab
> > > does for you.
> > 
> > Because I get used to use exim, that is why.
> 
> If you really want to use Kolab and are new to it, I would recommend
> sticking as closely as possible to the standard install.  

+1


> On balance, it probably makes more sense to remove exim from debian,
> install something like ssmtp to keep APT happy that you have an MTA
> installed and then install kolab which will bind to port 25.

+1 again, I usually install nulllmailer on Debian and ssmtp on Fedora.

Regards.
Christoph

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