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Binary package hint: exim4

Attempt to install exim4-daemon-light on Ubuntu 8.04.1 results in the
following error result:

root@host:~# apt-get install exim4-daemon-light
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  exim4-base exim4-config
Suggested packages:
  exim4-doc-html exim4-doc-info eximon4 gnutls-bin openssl libmail-spf-query-perl mail-reader
Recommended packages:
  mailx
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1707kB of archives.
After this operation, 3617kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main exim4-config 4.69-2 [310kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main exim4-base 4.69-2 [981kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main exim4-daemon-light 4.69-2 [416kB]
Fetched 1707kB in 3s (456kB/s)             
Preconfiguring packages ...
hostname: Unknown host
hostname: Unknown host
Selecting previously deselected package exim4-config.
(Reading database ... 11741 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking exim4-config (from .../exim4-config_4.69-2_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package exim4-base.
Unpacking exim4-base (from .../exim4-base_4.69-2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package exim4-daemon-light.
Unpacking exim4-daemon-light (from .../exim4-daemon-light_4.69-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up exim4-config (4.69-2) ...
hostname: Unknown host
Adding system-user for exim (v4)

Setting up exim4-base (4.69-2) ...

Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2) ...
 * Starting MTA
exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 exim4-daemon-light
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@host:~# 

Note the "exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments" error
message above.

** Affects: exim4 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: exim4 (Ubuntu Hardy)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Canonical Server Team (canonical-server)
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: exim4 (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Fix Released

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exim4 install fails with error: incompatible command-line options
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/261026
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