ovirt in version 4.2 choose to incorporate postfix as a mandatory MTA:
yum erase postfix
...
Removing:
postfix x86_64 2:2.10.1-6.el7
@base 12 M
Removing for dependencies:
cockpit-ovirt-dashboard noarch 0.11.28-1.el7
@ovirt-4.2 15 M
ovirt-host x86_64 4.2.3-1.el7
@ovirt-4.2 11 k
ovirt-hosted-engine-setup noarch 2.2.22.1-1.el7
@ovirt-4.2 2.2 M
Is there a way to change that ? It's not about postfix being inferior or superior to
other solutions. It's that it didn't ask any thing, didn't check if one was
already installed. It's just installed.
For example:
rpm -q --provides postfix
MTA
config(postfix) = 2:2.10.1-6.el7
postfix = 2:2.10.1-6.el7
postfix(x86-64) = 2:2.10.1-6.el7
server(smtp)
smtpd
smtpdaemon
rpm -q --provides sendmail
MTA
config(sendmail) = 8.14.7-5.el7
sendmail = 8.14.7-5.el7
sendmail(x86-64) = 8.14.7-5.el7
server(smtp)
smtpdaemon
There is a lot of other dependencies to declare other than postfix, MTA would have been
better.