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Re: MTA packaging (exim, postfix, sendmail, ssmtp)


Hi Yaakov,

On Oct  6 17:19, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Corinna, Christian, Daniel, Pierre,
> 
> Because MTAs must be user-configured, and we certainly don't want to lose
> the selection during package upgrades, the alternatives cannot be handled in
> package postinst/prerm.  I think the only way to make this work is for each
> MTA config script to handle these instead by including the following
> snippets in the respective MTA config scripts.
> 
> Please review this carefully in case I missed anything.

The ssmtp part looks ok to me.  Two questions:

- Don't we have to add something to preremove as well?

- What if the user installs multiple MTA packages at the same time?


Thanks,
Corinna

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