This error can happen when there is a problem with your sendmail.cf: It
seems that Debian's sendmailconfig doesn't properly handle errors in
sendmail configuration files. For instance if there is a syntactic error
and you see a message like:
Creating /etc/mail/sendmail.cf...
m4:/etc/mail/sendmail
Additional Information as of 2019.02.26 (Ubuntu Linux 14.04.1) Had to
reset all directory permissions again in order to start Sendmail again.
Accepted this afternoon's updates. Here is what was captured:
Now updating apt apt-transport-https apt-utils firefox ghostscrip
** Tags added: trusty
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** Package changed: ubuntu => sendmail (Ubuntu)
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