MailScanner when removed leaves script in cron.daily

[El Diablo]

Binary package hint: mailscanner

OS: Ubuntu 6.06 Server LTS (32bit)

While building a spamwall, at one point I installed MailScanner, but later removed it. I noticed that I'm getting errors daily saying that MailScanner cron.daily failed.

Various elements of MailScanner have been left, even though the package has been removed

[Steve Kowalik (stevenk)]

What output does dpkg -l mailscanner return? If the first two letters are 'rc', then mailscanner is removed, but not completely. To remove it completely (or "purge" it), run 'sudo dpkg -P mailscanner' in a terminal.

[El Diablo (el-diablo)]

Hi Steve,

It returns "No packages found matching mailscanner."

I manually removed the remaining elements the other day though. I don't know if this has cause dpkg to return nothing. Sorry, my experience is with RPM, not DEB.

[Steve Kowalik (stevenk)]

If you removed the mailscanner.* files underneath /var/lib/dpkg/info, then that would be consistent with what dpkg -l said. If you didn't, mailscanner has been purged already and needs to be fixed, and if you did, then you just needed to purge mailscanner which you did by hand.

[Steve Kowalik (stevenk)]

Since there hasn't been any reply to this bug in just under five months, and the submitter has removed the offending setup by hand, I'm rejecting this bug.