On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Paul Duncan wrote:
> Thanks very much for that. Purging exim4-config and then doing a complete
> apt-get install of exim4 did the trick :-)

For the record, you don't need to purge and reinstall to get back
configuration files you may have accidentally deleted.

Just use: 

UCF_FORCE_CONFFMISS=true apt-get -o DPkg::Options::='--force-confmiss' 
reinstall foopkg;

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freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it
values more, it will lose that, too.
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