Yeah okay... Cool... Thanks for that... I was actually replying to my own post because I just found another way, and that was to edit /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride and remove this line root Debian-exim 0640 /etc/exim4/passwd.client Much appreciated. Yes, this bit of hardware belongs to a group that can't otherwise afford much. The hard drive is only 4 years old, it's a Seagate too. Normally pretty good. Daniel Lawson wrote:

At some point debian changed the user exim runs as. It used to be mail, which I thought was fine. Exim would have been ok too, but instead they picked Debian-exim. Yes. With a capital D.

Because you're fixing a broken system, I'd suggest you try manually adding the Debian-exim user and group:

adduser --system --home /var/spool/exim4 --shell /bin/false --no-create-home --group Debian-exim

This should create something like: /etc/passwd: Debian-exim:x:116:116::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false

/etc/group: Debian-exim:x:116:

Also, add the Debian-exim user to the mail group, just for compatability reasons:

adduser Debian-exim mail

You need more reliable hardware, Lindsay...

...

I get this error message...

dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

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