Thanks Derrick, I have tried to Gordon Pape's qmail but no go due to unable to remove exim ?
# apt-get remove --purge exim Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: exim* mutt* 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 4724kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 33135 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mutt ... Purging configuration files for mutt ... Removing exim ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim.prerm: update-inetd: command not found dpkg: error processing exim (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: exim E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) dpkg --purge exim (Reading database ... 33051 files and directories currently installed.) Removing exim ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim.prerm: update-inetd: command not found dpkg: error processing exim (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: exim On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 12:55, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:32:12PM -0800, W.D. McKinney wrote: > | Hello, > | > | Is there a URL for how to remove exim from Woody 3.0 ? > | I can't seem to recall what I did the last time :-) > > # aptitude --purge exim > or > # apt-get remove --purge exim > or > # dpkg --purge exim > > You probably don't want to do the above, however. UNIX systems need > an MTA so that, at the very least, the system can notify you of > certain error conditions. > > exim will get removed automatically if you install a different package > which provides 'mail-transport-agent'. > > HTH, > -D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]