[gentoo-user] netqmail blicks maildrop requiered by qmail-scanner.

[gentoo-user] netqmail blicks maildrop requiered by qmail-scanner.

[Henk Abma]

Hello list,

yesterday I wanted to emerge -uNDa world, at which point emerge said it couldn't emerge because maildrop 2.5.4 could not be installed on the same system 
as netqmail 1.06. Silly as I was, I removed maildrop, not knowing it was required by qmail-scanner, which I use for spam checking.

Result: no mail is picked up by my server any more. Of course I could return to using teh qmail internal scanner, however then I lose the spam checking 
right?

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards,

Henk.

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail blocks maildrop requiered by qmail-scanner.

[Henk Abma]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 08:10:25PM +0200, Henk Abma wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> yesterday I wanted to emerge -uNDa world, at which point emerge said it couldn't emerge because maildrop 2.5.4 could not be installed on the same system 
> as netqmail 1.06. Silly as I was, I removed maildrop, not knowing it was required by qmail-scanner, which I use for spam checking.

OK so I emerged maildrop with the --nodeps option to get things going again, but still wondering how others have dealt with the fact that netqmail and 
maildrop may no longer exist on the same machine.

Kind regards,

Henk.
> 
> Result: no mail is picked up by my server any more. Of course I could return to using teh qmail internal scanner, however then I lose the spam checking 
> right?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Henk.
> 
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail blocks maildrop requiered by qmail-scanner.

[felix]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:19:42PM +0200, Henk Abma wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 08:10:25PM +0200, Henk Abma wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > yesterday I wanted to emerge -uNDa world, at which point emerge said it couldn't emerge because maildrop 2.5.4 could not be installed on the same system 
> > as netqmail 1.06. Silly as I was, I removed maildrop, not knowing it was required by qmail-scanner, which I use for spam checking.
> 
> OK so I emerged maildrop with the --nodeps option to get things going again, but still wondering how others have dealt with the fact that netqmail and 
> maildrop may no longer exist on the same machine.

Someone told me to set -tools for maildrop in package.use.  I looked
up what that does but forget now, so presumably it's not terribly
important on my system.  Still puzzling.

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Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail blocks maildrop requiered by qmail-scanner.

[Eray Aslan]

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On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 08:47:08PM -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> Someone told me to set -tools for maildrop in package.use.  I looked
> up what that does but forget now, so presumably it's not terribly
> important on my system.  Still puzzling.

maildrop, netqmail, courier-imap all install the same file(s) leading to a
file collision.  See bug #61116 for the gory details.  Basically, with
-tools, we do not intall them.

Tying conflicting files to a USE flag does not make me happy either but
it was better than status quo.  An argument can be made though to not
enable the tools flag by default.

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