accidentally deleted the whole /etc/mail directory

am 27.01.2008 17:06:00 von scott

Now I've done

sudo apt-get --purge remove sendmail
sudo apt-get --reinstall install sendmail

but it won't re-write the config files into the mail directory....What
else can I do?

Thanks,

Scott Emick

Re: accidentally deleted the whole /etc/mail directory

am 27.01.2008 17:14:39 von scott

On Jan 27, 11:06 am, Scott wrote:
> Now I've done
>
> sudo apt-get --purge remove sendmail
> sudo apt-get --reinstall install sendmail
>
> but it won't re-write the config files into the mail directory....What
> else can I do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott Emick

I'm using Freespire 2.0.8

Re: accidentally deleted the whole /etc/mail directory

am 27.01.2008 23:52:24 von Dave Uhring

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:06:00 -0800, Scott wrote:

> Now I've done
>
> sudo apt-get --purge remove sendmail
> sudo apt-get --reinstall install sendmail
>
> but it won't re-write the config files into the mail directory....What
> else can I do?

Try reinstalling sendmail-cf.

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am 28.01.2008 03:44:01 von unknown

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am 28.01.2008 08:47:21 von unknown

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Re: accidentally deleted the whole /etc/mail directory

am 29.01.2008 03:40:50 von DFS

Scott wrote:

> sudo apt-get --purge remove sendmail
> sudo apt-get --reinstall install sendmail
> but it won't re-write the config files into the mail directory....What
> else can I do?

Well, you could get a job at Charter:
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080124/D8UCEF2O0.html

But seriously...

If you're on a Debian derivative, apt-get --reinstall install sendmail-base
should set up a new /etc/mail for you.

Regards,

David.

Re: accidentally deleted the whole /etc/mail directory

am 30.01.2008 19:24:27 von scott

On Jan 28, 9:40 pm, "David F. Skoll" wrote:
> Scott wrote:
> > sudo apt-get --purge remove sendmail
> > sudo apt-get --reinstall install sendmail
> > but it won't re-write the config files into the mail directory....What
> > else can I do?
>
> Well, you could get a job at Charter:http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080124/D8UCEF2O0. html
>
> But seriously...
>
> If you're on a Debian derivative, apt-get --reinstall install sendmail-base
> should set up a new /etc/mail for you.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.

Thanks, actually the problem was somehow postfix got installed instead
and that's why the directories were different.

I have everything straight now it it works perfectly with Ubuntu
Server 7.10 LAMP setup and postfix. It was just a bit rough for me it
has been a little while with linux for me.

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