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Paniclog has non-zero size, mail system might be broken
You will have to update the packages in order to repair the mail system, to empty your paniclog file and to restart the server. Exim4 has probably not been totaly removed if you decided to uninstall it after a setup failure.
If you get the following message, after the installation of Exim4 :
Try these commands :
Or
There is an incompatibility between sendmail and Exim4 as they use the same port (port 25).
Then :
If you still get it :
Remove all the lines. Save with Ctrl+O, Ctrl+X.
If you get the following message, after the installation of Exim4 :
ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system might be broken
Try these commands :
apt-get autoremove
Or
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove sendmail
There is an incompatibility between sendmail and Exim4 as they use the same port (port 25).
Then :
sudo service apache2 restart
/etc/init.d/exim4 restart
If you still get it :
nano /var/log/exim4/paniclog
Remove all the lines. Save with Ctrl+O, Ctrl+X.
/etc/init.d/exim4 restart
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