Microtel2:/etc/init.d# apt-get --purge remove courier-imap Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: courier-imap* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 28 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1483kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 31070 files and directories currently installed.) Removing courier-imap ... /etc/init.d/courier-imap: line 134: Mail: command not found invoke-rc.d: initscript courier-imap, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing courier-imap (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 /etc/init.d/courier-imap: line 134: Mail: command not found invoke-rc.d: initscript courier-imap, action "start" failed. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: courier-imap E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)