Purging smtp services from Debian

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:45:50 +0100

Lately I purchased mew dedicated server with intention to use it as my new running mail email server - mailcow, my blog, and some other services. When I was migrating mailcow suite everything was fine except postfix image failed to start.

I had problem like that already on Debian and usually I was dealing with that by disabling exim:

sudo systemctl disable exim.service

This was fine till major Debian update that was reinstalling exim and causing it to steal port 25 again. So this time I decided to uinstall it completely.

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Purging smtp services from Debian