Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-31 Thread Jack Kern
On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 03:06:32PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: [...] > >> with a lot less problems than exim. > > I couldn't get smail to work and went to exim, which worked almost out-of- > the box. :) Funny I have had the opposite experience. smail ok outa-the-box; exim was a wreck. I had sm

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-30 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Hallo, >> >> Why do you call that an "upgrade"? I have tried out exim several times >> without success. In my opinion smail is much easier to install and works >> with a lot less problems than exim. I couldn't get smail to work and went to exim, which worked almost out-of- the box. :)

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Peter Prohaska wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 09:28:42PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > On Tue, 26 May 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > [..] > > I wholeheartedly DISAGREE with that. Exim is a breeze, at least for me. > > Smail should not be considered as an internet mailer in my

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-27 Thread Peter Prohaska
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 09:28:42PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 1998, Johann Spies wrote: [..] > I wholeheartedly DISAGREE with that. Exim is a breeze, at least for me. > Smail should not be considered as an internet mailer in my opinion and > should be left to uucp only setups. >

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-27 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 26 May 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > > > Hallo, > > > > Why do you call that an "upgrade"? I have tried out exim several times > > without success. In my opinion smail is much easier to install and works > > with a lot less problems than exim.

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-27 Thread Damir J. Naden
hat it should be the default Debian MTA. This > topic would be an excellent one to debate on this list IMHO. > > Bake > Just my two cents: (FWIW, I'm running Debian 2.0 hamm) I have switched over from smail to exim while exim was the 1.90-3.deb version. All I had to do was to ru

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-27 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo, > > Why do you call that an "upgrade"? I have tried out exim several times > without success. In my opinion smail is much easier to install and works > with a lot less problems than exim. > > Johann. Yes, that was my experience also, but I did

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-26 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, Why do you call that an "upgrade"? I have tried out exim several times without success. In my opinion smail is much easier to install and works with a lot less problems than exim. Johann. -- | Johann Spies

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-26 Thread Mark W. Eichin
actually, something like dpkg --remove smail dpkg --install exim*.deb --auto-deconfigure is more likely to work safely - force-depends really should only be a last resort, *and* should usually be accompanied by a bug report... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-26 Thread Scott Hanson
Ulisses Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I try to install exim I get the following: > > exim conflicts with mail-transport-agent > smail provides mail-transport-agent and is installed. > > > I found this ok, but If I try to remove smail other packages also depends > on it, what is the

Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ulisses Alonso wrote: > > Hi all! > > If I try to install exim I get the following: > > exim conflicts with mail-transport-agent > smail provides mail-transport-agent and is installed. > > I found this ok, but If I try to remove smail other packages also depends > on it, what is the right wa

How to upgrade from smail to exim?

1998-05-26 Thread Ulisses Alonso
Hi all! If I try to install exim I get the following: exim conflicts with mail-transport-agent smail provides mail-transport-agent and is installed. I found this ok, but If I try to remove smail other packages also depends on it, what is the right way to upgrade? Thanks in advance,

RE: smail to exim

1997-12-11 Thread George Bonser
release was just announced this week. On 10-Dec-97 Kevin Traas wrote: > I'm looking to convert from smail to exim for various reasons > > Anyway, I've no experience with exim. Can anyone give me any pointers on > how to proceed with this particular "roll-over"

Re: smail to exim

1997-12-11 Thread tps
On Dec 10, Kevin Traas wrote > I'm looking to convert from smail to exim for various reasons > > Anyway, I've no experience with exim. Can anyone give me any pointers on > how to proceed with this particular "roll-over" or let me know of any docs > I can

smail to exim

1997-12-10 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm looking to convert from smail to exim for various reasons Anyway, I've no experience with exim. Can anyone give me any pointers on how to proceed with this particular "roll-over" or let me know of any docs I can RTFM, etc. Any caveats, things to watch for, etc. wo