Comment 3 for bug 261026

A work-around which solved it here is to edit "/etc/init.d/exim4" and remove the quotes surrounding variables holding optional parameters passed to start-stop-daemon, since if those variables are empty a pair of quote-marks will be passed to start-stop-daemon.

After editing the file force apt to fix-up the packages:

sudo apt-get -f install

=== /etc/init.d/exim4 fixed start_exim() function ===

start_exim()
{
  [ -e /var/run/exim4 ] || \
    install -d -oDebian-exim -gDebian-exim -m750 /var/run/exim4
  case ${QUEUERUNNER} in
    combined)
      start_daemon -p "$PIDFILE" \
        "$DAEMON" -bd "-q${QFLAGS}${QUEUEINTERVAL}" \
        ${COMMONOPTIONS} ${QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS} ${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS}
      log_progress_msg "exim4"
      ;;
    separate)
      start_daemon -p "$PIDFILE" \
        "$DAEMON" -bd ${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS} ${COMMONOPTIONS}
      log_progress_msg "exim4_listener"
      start_daemon -p "$QRPIDFILE" \
        "$DAEMON" -oP "$QRPIDFILE" \
        "-q${QFLAGS}${QUEUEINTERVAL}" ${QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS} ${COMMONOPTIONS}
      log_progress_msg "exim4_queuerunner"
      ;;
    queueonly)
      start_daemon -p "$QRPIDFILE" \
        "$DAEMON" -oP "$QRPIDFILE" \
        "-q${QFLAGS}${QUEUEINTERVAL}" ${QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS} ${COMMONOPTIONS}
      log_progress_msg "exim4_queuerunner"
      ;;
    no|ppp)
      start_daemon -p "$PIDFILE" \
        "$DAEMON" -bd ${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS}
      log_progress_msg "exim4_listener"
      ;;
    nodaemon)
      ;;
  esac
}