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Author: Kuyper Hoffman
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To: Neal Becker
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: what's this?
> This message seems to be "stuck". Any thoughts?
>
> >grep 0vCqPm-0005q8-00 /hosts/ro/usr/spool/exim/log/mainlog
> 1996-10-14 13:04:38 0vCqPm-0005q8-00 <= 72731.3417@??? H=dub-img-4.compuserve.com [149.174.206.134] P=smtp S=979582 id=961014165727_72731.3417_FHC96-2@???
> 1996-10-14 13:24:07 0vCqPm-0005q8-00 Spool file is locked
> 1996-10-14 13:54:06 0vCqPm-0005q8-00 Spool file is locked
> 1996-10-14 14:24:07 0vCqPm-0005q8-00 Spool file is locked
> [...]
>
> > ls -l msglog
> -rw-------   1 exim     exim            0 Oct 14 13:04 0vCqPm-0005q8-00


You on Linux?

We get a similar thing from time to time.  Today I had 4 messages
that had been stuck for 6-22 hours to a particular site.  I could
find no way of unlocking them, so I cp-ed the files
    0vCqPm-0005q8-00-?
to
    0vCqPm-0005q8-01-?


and resubmitted them -- I've had this before but assumed it was a
broken machine as it only happens on that machine (which also
ocassionally goes into mail loops -- both Exim and Smail stuck
delivering a message, consuming all avail CPU)

Cheers
Kuyper
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