#578188 Postfix installation fails due to bug in dialog "Bad recipient delimiter"

Package:
postfix
Source:
postfix
Description:
High-performance mail transport agent
Submitter:
Nico
Date:
2010-04-17 18:24:06 UTC
Severity:
normal
#578188#5
Date:
2010-04-17 17:58:44 UTC
From:
To:
When trying to install postfix, it presents the following dialog:



    ┌──────────────────────────────────┤ Postfix Configuration ├───────────────────────────────────┐
    │                                                                                              │
    │ Bad recipient delimiter                                                                      │
    │                                                                                              │
    │ The recipient delimiter must be a single character. 'question skipped' is what you entered.  │
    │                                                                                              │
    │                                            <Ok>                                              │
    │                                                                                              │
    └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘


Without ever asking for the information...

Cheers,

Nico

#578188#10
Date:
2010-04-17 18:12:11 UTC
From:
To:
Yeah, and here's the reason for it, there's a newline in the config:

sgv-nicosc-04:~# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libpcre3
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/1301kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Warning: Newline present in parameters passed to debconf.
This will probably cause strange things to happen!
Postfix Configuration
---------------------

The "mail name" is the domain name used to "qualify" _ALL_ mail addresses without a domain name. This
includes mail to and from <root>: please do not make your machine send out mail from root@example.org
unless root@example.org has told you to.

This name will also be used by other programs. It should be the single, fully qualified domain name
(FQDN).

Thus, if a mail address on the local host is foo@example.org, the correct value for this option would be
example.org.

System mail name: sgv-nicosc-04.ethz.ch


Warning: Newline present in parameters passed to debconf.
This will probably cause strange things to happen!
The "mail name" is the domain name used to "qualify" _ALL_ mail addresses without a domain name. This
includes mail to and from <root>: please do not make your machine send out mail from root@example.org
unless root@example.org has told you to.

This name will also be used by other programs. It should be the single, fully qualified domain name
(FQDN).

Thus, if a mail address on the local host is foo@example.org, the correct value for this option would be
example.org.

System mail name: