force reinstall/reconfigure of broken packages in debian (exim) [SOLVED]

I need to reinstall exim4-daemon-heavy on my system, and reinstall the files in /etc/exim4 (witch i presume are in exim4-base/exim4-config ?),
however apt-get refuses with the following errors:

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Error: Unsplit config selected and /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template missing ... exiting
dpkg: error processing exim4-config (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-base:
exim4-base depends on exim4-config (>= 4.30) | exim4-config-2; however:
Package exim4-config is not configured yet.
Package exim4-config-2 is not installed.
Package exim4-config which provides exim4-config-2 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing exim4-base (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-daemon-heavy:
exim4-daemon-heavy depends on exim4-base (>= 4.80); however:
Package exim4-base is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-heavy (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4:
exim4 depends on exim4-base (>= 4.80); however:
Package exim4-base is not configured yet.
exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy | exim4-daemon-custom; however:
Package exim4-daemon-light is not installed.
Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not configured yet.
Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed.

dpkg: error processing exim4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
exim4-config
exim4-base
exim4-daemon-heavy
exim4
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@pspodcasting:/var/log/exim4# dpkg-reconfigure exim4-base
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: exim4-base is broken or not fully installed

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is there any way I can force dpkg to reconfigure all this stuff?

Figured out a solution

apt-get --purge remove exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-heavy
apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy

Looks like there's some problem with exim4-base; maybe a bug in its post-install script, or maybe the package is just broken. Not sure whether this will work, but you could try to purge all exim4-* packages and install them again. To purge them, execute this command:

apt-get purge exim4-base exim4-config [and so on with the other packages]

Then reinstall them as you usually do (apt-get/synaptic, etc).

---------- Post added 07-04-14 at 10:19 PM ----------

You beat me to it. Glad you got it working.

Thanks