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Upgrade switched me to qmail, I want to switch back to postfix

SlobodanG

New Pleskian
Hi,

Please help me get back postfix.

I have upgraded Plesk from 9.5 to 9.5.2, and it switched from postfix to qmail, somehow leaving both packages installed.

First I have tried to switch back by using

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autoinstaller --select-release-current --install-component postfix

as mentioned here: http://kb.parallels.com/en/5801

and that gave me:

Detecting installed product components.
You already have the latest version of product(s) and all selected components
installed. Installation will not continue.

I have also tried removing postfix in order to get it back with autoinstaller by issuing rpm -e --nodeps postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2, but even after that I'm getting same message that I already have postfix installed.

At the end, I have tried to do update in Plesk to next version 9.5.3, but autoinstaller update fails telling me this:

The requested package "psa" could not be installed.
Searching problems for the "psa" package.
No suitable solutions were found for the "psa-mail-driver >= 1.0.0" dependency.
The "psa-mail-pc-driver-1.0.0-cos5.build95101022.06.i586" package resolves "psa-mail-driver >= 1.0.0".
The "psa-mail-pc-driver-1.0.0-cos5.build95100504.12.i586" package resolves "psa-mail-driver >= 1.0.0".
The "psa-mail-qc-driver-1.0.0-cos5.build95100504.12.i586" package resolves "psa-mail-driver >= 1.0.0".
Solution for dependency 'psa-mail-driver >= 1.0.0' is not available.Problem occured during searching directly resolved dependencies for 'psa-mail-driver >= 1.0.0' of package psa-9.5.3-cos5.build95101022.06.i586 Error: Unable to install the "psa-9.5.3-cos5.build95101022.06.i586" package.
Not all packages were installed.
Please, contact product technical support.

what now? how can i switch back to postfix?
 
Last edited:
if you run the auto installer manually you should be able to select postfix

you can also remove it by just specifying the package name

rpm -e postfix --nodeps

or

rpm -e `rpm -qa postfix\*` --nodeps
 
I did so, but autoinstaller kept telling me that package is up to date (?!)

now, I have upgraded plesk to 9.5.4 and I'll stay on qmail for time being.
 
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