Re: [Exim] spool file locked for LONG times...

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Philip Hazel wrote:

> The J file is a delivery journal, which gets created at the start of a
> delivery process (and removed at the end). This suggests that a delivery
> process has started, but is being held up for some reason.

ok.

> How long is the majordomo list?

Not too long, about 150 addresses.

> Exim does all the routing before it does any actual
> deliveries. Consequently, if it's a long list and there are DNS delays,
> it could hold it up a while, but that doesn't make sense if other
> messages to the same list go through.

This might be it then, exiwhat showed the process to be stuck on the same
address for a long time. I'll do some more debugging and get to the root
of it.

Thanks for all the help.

-roger