Yes, that helps a great deal! I have heard about 'virtual packages' and
tripped across various notices about them in messing around with this
box. I'll try to find more information about them.
I don't think I could have ever managed a qMail install without 'Life
With Qmail'. It was still a multi-day task, as I'd never built anything
from source before, but in the end it works. That was on a Redhat
system, and now I want to give the same process a shot on Debian.
Hopefully it will go quicker the second time around.
On another note : I had to install courier-imap to provide IMAP and
webmail. That package also comes with a pop server, as well as pops and
imaps servers. Anyone out there have a preference between the courier
pop or qmail-pop3? I'm using courier right now just for the sake of
consistency.
thanks again,
alex
Ben Browning wrote:
>Hey Alix,
>
>The problem you are having is that exim provides a virtual package-
>mail-transport-agent - that those services need
>
>What I do to do this is as follows:
>
>0) shutdown exim
>1) Install qmail (I use lifewithqmail with my local modifications
>spliced in)
>2) Setup the sendmail symlinks
>3) (IMPORTANT) dpkg-divert the sendmail symlinks. This will keep dpkg
>(and thus apt) from overwriting them and will instead overwrite a
>diversion file in the same dir
>4) (IMPORTANT) change all /etc/rc#.d/S*exim4* links to K links. DONT
>REMOVE THEM or apt will replace them when exim gets upgrades
>
>At this point exim is disabled and qmail can go about its business
>unimpeded.
>
>The alternate many Debian purists will suggest is to create a "stub"
>package for qmail with equivs that provides mail-transport-agent- If you
>want to try that I have such a stub package up at
>http://www.oz.net/~empty/equivs-qmail_1.0_all.deb . In my experience
>though it's not a big difference one way or the other and you lose a few
>things (notably for me the mail command, which I pipe a lot of crap to ;)
>
>Hope this info helps!
>
>~Ben
>
>
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