Re: Connection being lost to remote SMTP server?

At 04:31 PM 4/8/97 +0100, Glenn Carver wrote:
>>At 09:32 AM 4/8/97 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
>>>On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, John C. Ring, Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>>> Occasionally, I'm seeing messages sit on the queue for very long periods of
>>>> time.
>>>>
>>>> I find that whenever I use exiwhat, the messages are then delivered.
>>>
>>>Exiwhat sends a signal to each Exim process. Therefore, the stuck
>>>processes must be in some state of waiting for something, and the signal
>>>frees it up. Which operating system are you using?
>>
>>I have Exim running on a Solaris 2.4 SPARCstation.
>>
>
>I wonder if this is the same problem that I had running exim on Solaris...
>
>When I originally installed exim on our Sun system (running sol. 2.5.1)
>I had lots of problems with email being stuck on the queue and not being
>delivered because of 'spool file locked'. What was happening was that exim
>could not deliver mail to local spool files because they were locked for
>some reason. I'd not had a problem before using sendmail.
>
>With help from Phil Hazel, I was able to track it down to the use of mailtool
>and what it was doing regarding locking the mail file. The users were
>using 'mailtool' and 'dtmail' to read mail and the problem was only seen
>with users using mailtool.

Alas, this isn't the problem; there are no local users on the machine. It
functions solely to accept SMTP mail and forward it on its merry way,
usually making use of Exim's nice header rewriting functions, or figuring
out where jcring@???'s mailbox *really* is :)