EXIM problem

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Hello,

I updated my debian servers (2 servers) whit apt-get dist-upgrade and apt-et upgrade and apt-get update and now EXIM isn't working anymore. Starting it whit Direct Admin is also not possible anymore. Anyone an idea how i can fix this problem?

Thank you
 
What are the errors? Just saying it isn't working and won't start doesn't help too much.

/var/log/exim/*
 
Did you manage to either update or install exim with apt-get?

If so, you might need to uninstall it and then install it again from the DA supplied versions here.

Jeff
 
It probably was updated when i updated the totall server.

I did remove it now, but i can't install it again whit any off the packages you offer on that site.

some quote off the errors i get.

server2:~# ./da_exim-4.54.deb
./da_exim-4.54.deb: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
./da_exim-4.54.deb: line 1: `!<arch>'

server2:~# dpkg -i da_exim-4.54.deb
Selecting previously deselected package exim.
dpkg: regarding da_exim-4.54.deb containing exim:
exim4-base conflicts with exim
exim (version 4.51-1) is to be installed.
exim provides exim and is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing da_exim-4.54.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing exim
Errors were encountered while processing:
da_exim-4.54.deb

the system only has debian (net install, minimum install) on it and Direct Admin
 
i now have also da-apt on the server. i did try to reinstall direct admin but this didn't help for so far i can see (it still doesn't run exim).

In the attachment i have the logs i did make off the installation off Direct Admin (client ID and licence are censored, admin's can ask for this information if needed).
 

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Try remove all exim related packages. By looking at your log file, you still had exim4-config-2 installed, and that prevented da_exim from being installed. I am not that familiar with Debian, so I can't tell you exactly how to do that. But I would remove that package and try to install the da_exim package. Hopefully, that should be all you need to do.
 
I did try to remove EXIM totally, but i can't find a way to do that. anyone an idea? everytime i try i get the following error:
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 1 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up da-exim (1.25.0b-1) ...
Installing DirectAdmin's Exim4 server...
dpkg-deb: failed to read archive `da_exim-4.51.deb': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing da-exim (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of da-apt:
da-apt depends on da-exim | da-apt-exim; however:
Package da-exim is not configured yet.
Package da-apt-exim is not installed.
dpkg: error processing da-apt (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
da-exim
da-apt
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
 
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