Replacing postfix with something lighter - SOLVED

[Stelian Iancu]

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Stelian Iancu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to use mutt as my MUA and for sending I need a smtp server.
> So instead of a full featured MTA like postfix I would like to install
> something much much smaller: esmtp. So far so good. However:
> 
> stelu at paradise:~$ sudo apt-get install esmtp-run
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   postfix postfix-mysql postfix-tls ubuntu-base
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   esmtp-run
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 2896B of archives.
> After unpacking 2417kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
> 
> And this doesn't look too good. I don't want ubuntu-base removed (I
> guess that won't be such a smart move).
> 
> So is there any way I can replace postfix with esmtp while keeping
> ubuntu-base installed?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards,

In the meantime, I've read about ubuntu-base and I've learned that it is
needed when a dist-upgrade is to be done.

Thanks!

Regards,
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