[Pkg-exim4-users] Broken Exim4 after apt-get

[Tony Scharf]

I take full responsibility on this one, and realize it seems to be a
common mistake.  For as common as it is, I cant seem to google up what
I actually need to *do* to fix it.  I am sure its just something
simple that I am missing.

Yesterday I ran an apt-get which seems to have gone totally wrong (it
had been a long time since that particular server had been updated).
Now apt-get wont work either - it keeps trying to configure exim4 and
says its broken.

I should note that I took over this system from someone else who did
the original configuration.  I have never used Exim4 before, or Debian
in any extensive way (I have used Ubuntu quite a bit, but never as a
mail server - I am usually a database guy).  I have read through the
docs as much as I could in the few hours that this has been screwed
up, but I am really at a loss.   I know enough to say that this is
using the split configuration method.

I really dont know what else to do or where to turn to.  I may be
forced to start migrating the mail to another box, but I really dont
have time to do that unless there is just no hope of resurrecting this
box.

Here is the error message that I get:
--------------------------
Starting MTA:DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration. This
is most probably
caused by you upgrading to exim4 4.67-3 or later without accepting the
suggested conffile changes. Please read
/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz for 4.67-2 and 4.67-4
2008-04-08 12:04:46 Exim configuration error in line 27 of
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
  malformed macro definition
Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp, not installing
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
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Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer me.

Tony Scharf