Re: Reinstalling exim4

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (28/06/05 08:37), John Burton wrote:
> I've badly mesed up my email on my debian server.
> I've broken some of the config files and I'm not sure what any more and 
> deleted a lot of things in a bad attempt to fix it.
> 
> Now I just want to remove it and reinstall exim4 and all of it's related 
> software.
> apt-get complains it's already installed but I want to just reinstall 
> and overwrite ALL of the configuration and everything with the default 
> options as it it was just a fresh install.
$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude install postfix
$ sudo aptitude remove exim4
$ sudo aptitude purge exim4


$ sudo updatedb
$ locate exim4 | grep conf

remove all residual exim4 conf files manually

$ sudo updatedb
$ locate exim4

remove anything else that looks a problem

when 'clean'

$ sudo aptitude install exim4
$ sudo aptitude remove postfix
$ sudo aptitude purge postfix

YMMV

Regards

Clive

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