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Sendmail remnants left after switch to Postfix

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On boot, I get the following message:

Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfix.
Starting Mail Transport Agent (MTA): sendmailNo make, you'll have to rebuild your databases by hand 
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Not configured, not started. failed!                                                                
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Even though I've removed Sendmail and installed Postfix… there is obviously some trace of sendmail left, any idea where I should look to fix this?

Thanks,

Paul

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Which distribution are you running?

What procedure did you use to install Postfix?

What procedure did you use to uninstall sendmail?

@hoopycat:

Which distribution are you running?

What procedure did you use to install Postfix?

What procedure did you use to uninstall sendmail?

Debian, used the following HowTo as a basis for install:

http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-virtual-e … nd-dovecot">http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-virtual-emails-accounts-with-postfix-and-dovecot

And used apt to try to uninstall sendmail via apt-get remove sendmail

Looks like the real sendmail meat is in a few different packages, which are depended on by the "sendmail" metapackage: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/sendmail

So, try:

apt-get autoremove
--and/or--
apt-get remove sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf

That should hopefully get it out of there. Also check:

dpkg -l sendmail\*

just in case something got missed.

Apt still reporting things had been removed, but dpkg said that some config files were lying around, purging those and rebooting cleared up the issues, thanks for the help!

Paul

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