Re: qmail/exim

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:37:19PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> I know that the default installation is to use exim.
> But I would like to use qmail in it's place on at least one server.
> 
> My question is this:
> Are the dependencies for various email needing packages going to be able 
> to understand that I'm using qmail instead of exim and still meet the 
> requirements for an email server?  Or am I going to embark on a 
> dependency struggle from now on?

Pretty much everything that depends on exim accepts mail-transport-agent
as an alternative, unless it has very specialized requirements. If it
doesn't, it's a bug. Since the qmail packages built from qmail-src
provide mail-transport-agent, you should be OK.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]