> That should be the way Exim works normally. You will see "sysadm" as an
> undelivered address in Eximon and in exim -bp lists, since delivery to
> it has not been completed, but in fact all other addresses generated on
> that alias should have been delivered. You can check this by reading the
> mainlog files for appropriate messages to check what happened to them.
>
> Now, if the above isn't the case, then either there's some bug I am not
> aware of, or there are some special circumstances that apply in your
> case. If you can find one of the messages that got delayed, get hold of
> its message id and use exigrep to get all the relevant log entries, e.g.
>
> exigrep 0xxTzM-0001vO-00 /var/spool/exim/log/mainlog
>
> That should give the entire history of the message. (You may have to
> include other log files if the incident lasted over a log cycling
> operation.)
>
>
Yes, I thought it should work that way. I ran exigrep and got the following:
exigrep 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 /var/spool/exim/log/mainlog.5
1998-01-23 13:01:55 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 <= root@rainbo-prd H=level6 [192.168.30.6] P=smtp S=5253 id=9801232100.AA08109@???
1998-01-23 13:03:02 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 Spool file is locked
1998-01-23 13:18:02 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 Spool file is locked
1998-01-23 13:33:02 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 Spool file is locked
1998-01-23 13:37:22 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 Spool file is locked
1998-01-23 13:38:17 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 Spool file is locked
1998-01-23 13:38:27 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 Spool file is locked
1998-01-23 13:49:34 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 => victore <victore@???> D=localuser T=local_delivery
1998-01-23 13:49:34 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 => kawediya <kawediya@???> D=localuser T=local_delivery
1998-01-23 13:49:35 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 => dhaut <dhaut@???> D=localuser T=local_delivery
1998-01-23 13:49:35 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 => croyston <croyston@???> D=localuser T=local_delivery
1998-01-23 13:49:35 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 => brunberg <brunberg@???> D=localuser T=local_delivery
1998-01-23 13:49:35 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 => bradm <bradm@???> D=localuser T=local_delivery
1998-01-23 13:49:35 0xvqEd-0000gZ-00 Completed
Brunberg was the user who's system was down. Should there be more information than this? Unfortunately I used the sledgehammer on the db files, so I can't get any information back from there. I will however try to recreate the situation.
Thank you,
Brad Mohning bradm@???
Level One Communications, Inc. (916) 854-2806
Sacramento CA 95827 (916) 854-2802 fax
USA
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