blockers

[James McDonald]

> A block simply means some other package provides the service this one
> does  and you can not have more than one of them providing the service -
> like  mail.  You can have sendmail or another mailer but not both.  I
> haven't  delved into the mail stuff on any distro but it may be that
> Gentoo  defaulted to using sendmail to provide mail or you installed it.
>  If it's  installed you could uninstall it and put your desired mail
> program in.  I'd  check the archives on the Gentoo mail list as I
> believe this has come up  before.

Gentoo has great doco on getting mail going....

postfix install http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml#doc_chap6
apache and squirellmail http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml#doc_chap8
courier imap http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml#doc_chap8_sect2


-- 
James McDonald
Systems Engineer

Singleton NSW Australia