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Re: Preseeding Postfix for No configuration

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Erik wrote: 
> I am doing an unattended install of Debian Buster with postfix being
> added using apt-install in the preseed/late_command.
> 
> Without a postfix preseed definition in my preeseed file, I get the expected
> question about what kind of mail configuration I would like.
> When I select "No configuration", installation continues as expected and I
> end up with a postfix installation without main.cf and without master.cf.
> 
> But when I preseed postfix with "d-i postfix/main_mailer_type select No
> configuration"
> as both debconf-get-selections and
> https://preseed.debian.net/debian-preseed/buster/amd64-main-full.txt
> confirm I should do, I get an extra question asking me about the system mail
> name.
> Clearly, this question is out of place for a "No configuration" install.
> And as a result I end up with a main.cf and a master.cf, which contradicts
> the "No configuration".
> 
> So something is going wrong. Apparently the preseeded selection for
> configuration type is accepted, as that question is not asked, but it
> is not interpreted as "No configuration".

If you don't want any configuration, you must be supplying
configuration later on -- so why don't you refrain from
installing postfix via the preseed, and install it later when
you are ready to configure it?

-dsr-

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Preseeding Postfix for No configuration Erik <erik@vanlinsteeict.nl> - 2020-12-16 18:00 +0100
  Re: Preseeding Postfix for No configuration Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-12-16 18:30 +0100
    Re: Preseeding Postfix for No configuration Erik <erik@vanlinsteeict.nl> - 2020-12-16 19:20 +0100
      Re: Preseeding Postfix for No configuration David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-17 00:40 +0100

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