Hi George Bonser; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > I had this problem too a couple of times... smail's post-rm script removes > > /etc/aliases. George, You use exim, is this alias file non-generation a > > bug??? Isn't there a script or something there to create it for you? > >
I have installed exim_1.90-3 by replacing the existing smail_3.2.0.101-3 (all from then-unstable hamm). Back then, the exim installation script had a nice feature whereby, you could run dpkg --install exim* and it would _replace_ your smail package for you _without_ any intervention. I have heard that since than this feature has been missing from exim...(maybe others thought of it as bug and squashed it). > > I have never done a proper remove smail / install exim. > If the above outlined procedure is 'proper' way of doing things... My search with dpkg -S /etc/aliases has come up empty (I have a file, exim works, but it is apparently not owned or installed by any of the packages I have on my system). The comparable search by dpkg -L exim does confirm that exim does not install /etc/aliases for you. My guess is that /etc/aliases was installed by smail, not erased by purging the smail, and exim is happily using it. Hope this helps any of you, damir
