sudo apt-get --purge remove exim4 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Package exim4 is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 61 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up exim4-config (4.63-17) ... 2007-06-25 21:42:20 Exim configuration error in line 582 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp: user mail was not found 2007-06-25 21:42:20 Exim configuration error in line 582 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp: user mail was not found 2007-06-25 21:42:20 Exim configuration error in line 582 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp: user mail was not found exim: could not open panic log - aborting: see message(s) above Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp not installing /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated dpkg: error processing exim4-config (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-base: exim4-base depends on exim4-config (>= 4.30) | exim4-config-2; however: Package exim4-config is not configured yet. Package exim4-config-2 is not installed. Package exim4-config which provides exim4-config-2 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing exim4-base (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-daemon-light: exim4-daemon-light depends on exim4-base (>= 4.63); however: Package exim4-base is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: exim4-config exim4-base exim4-daemon-light E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)