I've got a Debian 9 desktop that is experiencing difficulty updating exim4. The result of trying to upgrade is:
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root@olive:/home/hbarta# apt -y upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up exim4-config (4.89-2) ...
2017-04-27 14:54:34 Exim configuration error in line 685 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
group mail was not found
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 package exim4-config (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-base:
exim4-base depends on exim4-config (>= 4.82) | 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 package exim4-base (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-daemon-light:
exim4-daemon-light depends on exim4-base (>= 4.89); however:
Package exim4-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package 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)
root@olive:/home/hbarta#
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2017-04-27 14:54:34 Exim configuration error in line 685 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
group mail was not found
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root@olive:/home/hbarta# grep mail /etc/group
mail:x:8:
root@olive:/home/hbarta#
I'm at a loss as to how to fix this. I'm not against installing a different mta but sendmail.cf still scares me.
Thanks!