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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 MTA at the same host
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 16:56:28
Message-Id: ccebacc6-c774-fb18-2bbd-12a96466af20@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] 2 MTA at the same host by Konstantin
1 On 08/08/2016 12:29, Konstantin wrote:
2 > Hello Guys
3 >
4 > I need to install postfix and exim at the same Gentoo server.
5
6 Why?
7
8 You either have them running on different ports (mighty unusual) or,
9 more likely or different NICs.
10
11 So put them on two different machines. Hardware is dirt cheap and unless
12 you are a huge corporate an average Samsung S5 phone can fill most mail
13 needs. Or as Neil suggested, make one machine a VM
14
15
16 > I know it is unusual configuration ).
17 > I have both MTA running at CentOS and trying to migrate to Gentoo.
18 >
19 > Current error message for "emerge -pv exim" is:
20 > [blocks B ] mail-mta/exim ("mail-mta/exim" is blocking
21 > mail-mta/postfix-3.1.0-r1)
22 >
23 > Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1,763 KiB
24 > Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
25 >
26 > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
27 > * installed at the same time on the same system.
28 >
29 > (mail-mta/postfix-3.1.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
30 > mail-mta/postfix required by @selected
31 >
32 > (mail-mta/exim-4.87:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
33 > exim
34 >
35 > What i need to change in ebuild files of these packages in order to
36 > install both of them ?
37 >
38 > Thanks.
39 >
40 > --
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43
44 --
45 Alan McKinnon
46 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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