On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, EXIM Users wrote:
> I reported this to the list about 3 days ago (see my mail "stale/corrupt -D
> files in spool/input" for details). We are seeing LOTS of these appearing,
> at first we thought it might be a memory/disk corruption issue but after
> moving the bulk of our mail over to another solaris 2.6 server we started
> seeing exactly the same problem. Both are running exim 3.22 and are
> generating these files about once every 3 minutes. There's nothing fancy in
> our configuration, just straight mail routing between servers.
Hmm. You are also on Solaris 2.6. Anybody see this on any other
operating system? We went from 2.5 to 8, and haven't seen this problem.
> Looking out files they seem to contain parts of /etc/services, parts of the
> message headers, and even parts of the SMTP conversation?! They aren't
> entirely plain text either. Could this been some sort of memory dump?
Looks like a screwup somehow with the pointers in the output buffers,
but how it got provoked I couldn't begin to guess...
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