ok i am trying to setup a mail server and i am following this tutorial http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-us...-ubuntu8.10-p3 and i noticed it errors when i try to install it.

root@server1:/tmp# apt-get install amavisd-new
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
amavisd-new is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 43 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up amavisd-new (1:2.6.1.dfsg-2ubuntu1) ...
Creating/updating amavis user account...
Broken amavis system user found. To insure data-safety,
it is up to you the local administrator to remove the broken
amavis user, or repair it so that it is sane
dpkg: error processing amavisd-new (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
amavisd-new
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@server1:/tmp#


i am a noob when it comes to setting up a linux server so bear with me.

any ideas?

try
Then reinstall

ok i got that to install now...thank you. it is listening as you can see here

telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 server1.m4dclan.com ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
ehlo localhost
250-server1.m4dclan.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN


but when i finished the tutorial i login to SquirrelMail i get a blank page. the login screen works fine. but then a blank white page.

???????????????

ok also i just sent a test email from gmail and the email comes up in my /vmail/new/ directories.. so it looks like my mail server is working just need to get the web interface to work