[Bug 887599] Re: funny characters in hostname causes dovecot to fail to configure

[Phillip Susi]

It turned out it was the postfix package that was the problem, and apt
was just trying to configure it each time I tried to remove dovecot-
postfix.  After purging and reinstalling dovecot it picked up the
corrected hostname and configured correctly.


** Summary changed:

- unable to configure or uninstall dovecot-postfix
+ funny characters in hostname causes dovecot to fail to configure

** Description changed:

- I installed dovecot-postfix, and it failed to configure.  The same error
- apparently prevents it from being removed as well, so now I'm stuck with
- a broken package.  The error is:
+ I installed dovecot-postfix, and it failed to configure.  The error is:
  
  newaliases: warning: valid_hostname: invalid character 40(decimal): devserv.(null)
  newaliases: fatal: file /etc/postfix/main.cf: parameter myhostname: bad parameter value: devserv.(null)
  dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
  
  This appears to be because my /etc/hosts file listed the FQDN as
- "devserv.(null)".  I have corrected the name but the dpkg scripts still
- are using the broken name and failing to do anything, even remove
- --purge.
+ "devserv.(null)".

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  funny characters in hostname causes dovecot to fail to configure

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