Sendmail package does not cleanly uninstall.

[PaulSchulz]

Ubuntu: 8.04.1 (server amd64)
Version: 8.14.2-2build1

After 'apt-get install sendmail', removing the package (and autoremove) leaves files around.

The following files are still present, after removing the package:

 alternatives/aliases.5.gz
 alternatives/lib.sendmail
 alternatives/mailq
 alternatives/mailq.1.gz
 alternatives/newaliases
 alternatives/newaliases.8.gz
 alternatives/runq
 alternatives/runq.8.gz
 alternatives/sendmail
 alternatives/sendmail-msp
 alternatives/sendmail-msp.8.gz
 alternatives/sendmail-mta
 alternatives/sendmail-mta.8.gz
 alternatives/sendmail.8.gz
 cron.d/sendmail
 cron.daily/sendmail
 dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/sendmail
 inetd.conf
 init.d/sendmail
 ld.so.cache
 logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/
 logcheck/ignore.d.server/sendmail
 logcheck/ignore.d.workstation/
 logcheck/violations.ignore.d/
 mail/
 network/if-down.d/sendmail
 network/if-post-down.d/sendmail
 network/if-up.d/sendmail
 pam.d/smtp
 ppp/ip-down.d/sendmail
 ppp/ip-up.d/sendmail
 rc0.d/K19sendmail
 rc1.d/K19sendmail
 rc2.d/S21sendmail
 rc3.d/S21sendmail
 rc4.d/S21sendmail
 rc5.d/S21sendmail
 rc6.d/K19sendmail

In particular, /etc/cron.d/sendmail causes a cron jobs to run every 20 mins,
which fails as the binaries it refers to are no longer present on the system.

[PaulSchulz (paulschulz)]

Package was removed with:
  apt-cache remove --purge sendmail
  apt-get autoremove

[LiraNuna (liranuna)]

Also effects here. removed the same way as Paul Schulz (replace apt-cache as apt-get).

This effects other mail servers after installation such as postfix after the removal of sendmail package inc. purge.