Installation without postfix

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virgil

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Aug 31, 2010
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Hey folks

Just a quick question for you. Is there a way to install proxmox on debian lenny without postfix ? This is may be a dumb question but I'm currently trying to move my server to proxmox without reinstalling it (it's a bit tricky and dangerous but the accountants doesn't want to pay a new server to migrate ....) And of course I've got my mail server already running on it using postfix and I don't want it to reset my conf ^^

So if you have any idea, just let me know please !

Cheers
 
No, I'm just trying to install proxmox without installing Postfix (just pointing it on my existing), the migration is coming after that but thanks for the link, will be usefull at some point ;)
Any idea ? maybe a flag to add on the aptitude command or something like that ....
 
I don't know your full situation but I wouldn't suggest installing Proxmox VE on top of a production email server. It opens up a plethora of potential problems because the host becomes a possible single point of failure for all the virtual machines. Running other software introduces potential security, reliability and performance issues. The Proxmox kernel is narrowly focused towards the virtualization platform, and isn't really geared towards being a mail server. Also the Proxmox dev team doesn't support anything except a bare metal install.

If you know all this and still want to proceed my advice would be to back up your server thoroughly first. Maybe something like:

aptitude hold postfix

would keep your postfix install safe. I'm not 100% sure, so do your research before proceeding.
 
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