This one time, at band camp, David wrote:
>the moral of this story is that if you are going to install postfix,
>remove exim first. apt-get removes exim but leaves the config/scrip files
>and then apt-get remove --purge doesn't work. It's not a huge problem,
>just that on a server I don't like messy files lying around.

dpkg --purge exim, cut out the middle man.  apt is probably deciding that as
exim is no longer installed, it can't remove, let alone purge, it.   dpkg
has no such issues with install status.

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