Thanks Derrick,
I have tried to Gordon Pape's qmail but no go due to unable to remove exim ?
# apt-get remove --purge exim Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: exim* mutt* 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 4724kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 33135 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mutt ... Purging configuration files for mutt ... Removing exim ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim.prerm: update-inetd: command not found dpkg: error processing exim (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: exim E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
dpkg --purge exim (Reading database ... 33051 files and directories currently installed.) Removing exim ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim.prerm: update-inetd: command not found dpkg: error processing exim (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: exim
Well, update-inetd is in the netbase package. Do you have that package installed? If not, install it, and try your purge again.
(I see that netbase is a "Recommends" for exim; apparently that is a bug and it should be a "Requires").
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