xmail crached while installing

Bug #420130 reported by suv
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Nominated for Karmic by drh2020

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xmail

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  xmail
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 249kB of archives.
After this operation, 852kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe xmail 1.25-4 [249kB]
Fetched 118kB in 2s (55.6kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: ssmtp: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
 bsd-mailx depends on postfix | mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package postfix is not installed.
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package ssmtp which provides mail-transport-agent is to be removed.
  Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed.
(Reading database ... 154493 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ssmtp ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Selecting previously deselected package xmail.
(Reading database ... 154475 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xmail (from .../archives/xmail_1.25-4_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up xmail (1.25-4) ...
I: Creating generic self-signed certificates.
I: (replace with hand-crafted or authorized one if needed).
Starting XMail server: XMail.
I: Adding new domain.
ErrCode = -138
ErrString = Controller response error
ErrInfo = Name does not respect RFC822
dpkg: error processing xmail (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xmail
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xmail 1.25-4
SourcePackage: xmail
Title: package xmail 1.25-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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suv (sayantan-7) wrote :
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Phil Mourey (philsubuntu) wrote :

xmail package requirement to move off windows totally. Hope you find the problem quickly.

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drh2020 (drh2020) wrote :

Please fix this folks! I had to research web forums dating back to 2006 on this problem!
Now I have elected to purge xmail from my system and install sendmail instead.
Thanks and keep up the good work.

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