Package: postfix Version: 2.3.4-3 Severity: normal Installing postfix, my goal is the "Local-only" configuration option. I have repeated this bug also doing "Internet site", and several attempts with removal-purge-install-reconfigure.
Everything proceeds normally, until I reach the "What character defines a local address extension?" option entry. All entries made in the entry box, including nothing (deleting everything), are not accepted, and bring up an error "Bad recipient delimiter. The recipient delimiter is a single character, you entered too many characters. Please try again." Hitting enter from here goes back to the previous option entry - it's stuck in a loop. When I break out the debconf menus (hitting Enter and Ctl-C almost simultaneously), there is an error message that was hidden behind the ncurses interface: # dpkg-reconfigure postfix Warning: Newline present in parameters passed to debconf. This will probably cause strange things to happen! While this doesn't make Postfix unusable, I have to do manual configuration. Time to RTFM :/ Postfix depends: adduser 3.100 debconf 1.5.11 dpkg 1.13.24 libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 libdb4.3 4.3.29-6 libsasl2-2 2.1.22.dfsg1-8 libssl0.9.8 0.9.8c-4 lsb-base 3.1-22 netbase 4.27 ssl-cert 1.0.13 -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (101, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-6-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
