Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

On 28/09/11 11:39, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:24:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> > I inadvertantly deleted /etc/init.d/sendmail.  Well I thought I'd just
> > reinstall sendmail to re-acquire that file.
>
> ...
>
> > Any attempt to uninstall it tells me it is not installed, any attempt
> > to install it ends with an error that appears to happen due to that
> > missing file, or the fact that sendmail-bin cannot be --configured.
>
> ...
>
> > | /etc/mail/aliases: 4 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 66 bytes total
> > | invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/sendmail not found.
> > | dpkg: error processing sendmail-bin (--configure):
>
> sudo "touch /etc/init.d/sendmail"
> sudo "aptitude --purge remove sendmail*"
>
> However my preferred method:
>
> "sudo aptitude install postfix"
>
> Postfix is a drop-in replacement for sendmail that can be configured by mere
> mortals.

Unless the machine is a mail server - ie it receives mail and stores it 
there for access by client programs.  Then the very easiest package to 
install is ssmtp.

I have quite a few machines in my house, but only one is the mail server.

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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk