Re: Replacing Exim with self compiled qmail

[Florian Ernst <florian@uni-hd.de>]

Hello Andre!

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 08:47:28PM +1100, Andre Marenke wrote:
> I have a minimal Debian install with an Exim in broken configuration. In
> addition, I have installed qmail which is running fine. 
>
> Is there a way to uninstall Exim and have dpkg recognize my qmail
> installation as the system mailer so that I can install other packages
> that rely on an mta? 

See the 'equivs' package, and make sure to set
Replaces: mail-transport-agent
Provides: mail-transport-agent
Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
in the resulting package.

> The qmail-src and var-qmail packages are not an option btw.

OK, if you say...

HTH,
Flo

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