Removing Postfix; installing Sendmail on SLES 9

[bchapman]

Sorry, but this is not directly a Scalix issue...

I am trying to do a test installation of Scalix CE on a SLES 9 box. The installation fails because of the lack of sendmail. I would uninstall Postfix and install sendmail, but postfix seems to be tightly integrated into SLES and complains that various packages will be broken if I uninstall Postfix.

Can some kind soul point me to a how-to on how to replace Postfix with sendmail on SLES 9? I've googled, but have not located anything. Sorry for the basic questions; I'm more familiar with RH, but the only test box currently available is the SUSE one.

Thanks,

Ben Chapman

[ScalixSupport]

Hi Ben,

If I remember correctly, all you have to do is go into YaST, choose Install/Remove Software, do a search for "sendmail" and select it and and the dev package, then click on Accept. YaST will prompt you for whichever discs it needs for sendmail. It should also automatically disable postfix.

Thanks,
Rachel

[vorlon2261]

Same thing happened to me on SuSE 9.3...

Thing to remember is that both changes have to happen at the same time.

The way I did it was to set YaST to install 'sendmail' then click on the resolve
dependancies, which gave the option to remove postfix and anything else that
was wrong at the time...

When I implemented the production system on SLES9, I made sure the initial
install had Sendmail bundled, as it was much simpler to deal with...

[bchapman]

Thanks for the help.

As it turns out, there is something odd about the way our installation media is registered in YaST. So, sendmail never shows up as an installable package. I located sendmail and sendmail-dev on the CD's, copied that over and then did a 'rpm -ev postfix'. Then I did an 'rpm -ivh sendmail*rpm'. That took care of everything. I have not been able to do much yet with the system, but I have to say the webmail client is really impressive.

Thanks!

Ben