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Here's a debian package for convincing apt that you have a mail transport agent. I built it on intrepid. I know it works on hardy. It should work on any version/architecture.

cd /tmp
wget http://tomclegg.net/software/mta-manually-installed_1.0_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i mta-manually-installed_1.0_all.deb

How to build it yourself

First install equivs and remove exim if apt sneaks it in along with the real dependencies. (!)

sudo apt-get install equivs
sudo apt-get remove exim4 exim4-daemon-light exim4-base exim4-config

Create a deb file and edit it to suit.

equivs-control mta-manually-installed
emacs mta-manually-installed

Mine looks like this.

Section: misc
Priority: optional
Standards-Version: 3.6.2

Package: mta-manually-installed
Provides: mail-transport-agent
Description: prevent apt from trying to install a mail-transport-agent

Build the .deb package.

equivs-build mta-manually-installed

Install the resulting package.

sudo dpkg -i mta-manually-installed_1.0_all.deb