Im sorting out my gmail inbox, trying to delete messages that arent adding anything but dead weight (ex. those annoying facebook update emails). I thought itd be a fabulous idea to download the messages using POP3, analyze them somehow in Linux (Ubuntu Server 14) in order to determine which senders had to the most messages in the inbox, then go back to gmail, find those senders, and if theyre not relevant, boom... to trash they go. Seemed fabulous, except, how to get the statistics on how many messages came from each address? I did a google search and came up with something called mailstats. Seemed worth playing with. So I looked it up, and... apt-get install mailstats. But you also need sendmail-bin, said apt, so I said cool... apt-get install sendmail-bin. When it said starting MTA sendmail... I knew this was probably not such a good idea. Oh, what a fine mess. Sendmail and postfix running both at the same time. The mail system dropped dead. /etc/init.d/postfix restart, /etc/init.d/sendmail stop... neither of them did anything good. My wonderfully well configured and behaving postfix system was down the toilet. I finally managed to get it working again with apt-get remove sendmail-bin, then dpkg-reconfigure postfix. But, not that easy. At that time postfix was running, but I had no mail or mailq commands. /usr/bin/mail command not found. Great. More googling, apt-get install mailutils, that fixed it. And then, apt said youve got leftover sendmail junk... so apt-get autoremove. And finally, my mail system seems to be back to normal. Sent a few test mails, everything seems back to the way it was. Im not doing that again.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 13:43:10 +0000
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