removing_qmail

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Subject: Re: Removing Qmail...
From: trixer <trixer@mail.suntrix.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:10:24 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Matt Housh wrote:

> 	I am not interested in opinions as to whether or not
> it's a good idea to remove qmail and switch back to
> sendmail, I am simply asking how to do it.  It seems to me
> that a flame war is unnecessary here. We all have our own
> opinions, and I happen to be quite fond of qmail. I simply
> wish to know if this is something that can be reasonably
> easily accomplished. A simple answer is all I'm looking
> for, not lengthy discourse on the virtues of one over the
> other. Fair? Yes.

I apologize for my previous post.  I guess I was just caught off guard by
your question.  If you insrtalled from tarball, all you need to do is
remove the qmail users...qmaild, qmailq, qmails etc.  If you use tcsh, you
could do something similar to the following:

# foreach n ( qmaild qmails qmailq ) <cr>
userdel -r $n <cr>
end <cr>

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Be sure to include all the other qmail users as well.  The <cr>'s are
carriage returns.  That should remove qmail from your system except for
tcpserver and the startup scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d and /etc/rc.d/rc3.d


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Subject: Re: Removing Qmail...
> From: Matt Housh <jaeger@morpheus.net>
> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:44:14 -0500
> 
I apologize for my previous post.  I guess I was just caught off guard by
> your question.  If you insrtalled from tarball, all you need to do is
> remove the qmail users...qmaild, qmailq, qmails etc.  If you use tcsh, you
> could do something similar to the following:
> 
> # foreach n ( qmaild qmails qmailq ) <cr>
> userdel -r $n <cr>
> end <cr>
> 
> ---
> 
> Be sure to include all the other qmail users as well.  The <cr>'s are
> carriage returns.  That should remove qmail from your system except for
> tcpserver and the startup scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d and /etc/rc.d/rc3.d

	Seems pretty reasonable, yes... On thinking about it, it seems to me it
would all be relatively simple. The most complicated part of it would be
moving from $HOME/Mailbox back to /var/spool/mail/$USER, I'm thinking. Ah
well, not likely to ever actually happen, was just curious. Thanks for the
reply...

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