Dear all,
I hope someone can help me track down an annoying intermittent problem with exim.
Occasionally when exim is receiving messages from my ISP (Demon) it will complain "Failed to create spool file" and close the smtp connection. This is annoying because I then have to wait online for the ISP to initiate another smtp connection which may be several minutes later. See the attached mainlog fragment for an example (id 0yWlZG-00005Y-00). From reading the source (accept.c), I think this can be caused by exim not being able to create its spool data file with exclusive access. Is that at all likely? Might it be caused by a queue run starting? In this example and another, a queue run started within a second before the error message being generated.
I am encountering this with exim 1.62 and also a later version (I think it was 1.89). Both are Debian Linux packaged versions.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Dave Holland
1998-05-05 18:31:50 0yWlZF-00005G-00 <= bounce-flutenet--792-gina=zenda.demon.co.uk@??? H=relay-6.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.6] P=smtp S=2071
id=894329214.055098.0@www.onelist.com
1998-05-05 18:31:51 Start queue run: pid=540
1998-05-05 18:31:51 0yWlZG-00005Y-00 <= bounce-flutenet--797-gina=zenda.demon.co.uk@??? H=punt-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.34] P=smtp S=4192
id=894338672.1118822.0@www.onelist.com
1998-05-05 18:31:51 0yWlZE-00005Y-00 => gina <gina@???> D=procmail T=procmail_pipe
1998-05-05 18:31:51 0yWlZE-00005Y-00 Completed
1998-05-05 18:31:51 0yWlZ9-00005G-00 => gina <gina@???> D=procmail T=procmail_pipe
1998-05-05 18:31:51 0yWlZ9-00005G-00 Completed
1998-05-05 18:31:52 0yWlZH-00005G-00 <= owner-testers@??? H=relay-6.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.6] P=smtp S=1668 id=wdCBMGArdmT1EwzF@???
1998-05-05 18:31:52 0yWlZC-00005Y-00 => gina <gina@???> D=procmail T=procmail_pipe
1998-05-05 18:31:52 0yWlZC-00005Y-00 Completed
1998-05-05 18:31:52 0yWlZB-00005Y-00 => gina <gina@???> D=procmail T=procmail_pipe
1998-05-05 18:31:52 0yWlZB-00005Y-00 Completed
1998-05-05 18:31:53 0yWlZI-00005Y-00 <= bounce-flutenet--799-gina=zenda.demon.co.uk@??? H=punt-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.34] P=smtp S=3358
id=894339713.108634.0@www.onelist.com
1998-05-05 18:31:50 0yWlZJ-00005G-00 <= bounce-flutenet--793-gina=zenda.demon.co.uk@??? H=relay-6.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.6] P=smtp S=2116
id=894332622.1211341.0@www.onelist.com
1998-05-05 18:31:51 0yWlZG-00005Y-00 Failed to create spool file
1998-05-05 18:31:53 0yWlYw-00005Y-00 => |/usr/local/sbin/mlist-in -w zenda.mail.deadbeef <list-deadbeef@???> D=mailinglists T=address_pipe
1998-05-05 18:31:53 0yWlYw-00005Y-00 Completed
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