On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Ed Pascoe wrote:
> I've developed a strange problem on two different exim machines. It seems
> that when the
> network is reasonably loaded exim will send an email, log it as completed in
> the
> log, and then send another copy a short while later.
Weird. Haven't heard of that before.
> 2001-11-12 11:07:05 163Cwc-00069g-00 => maggi_steenkamp@???
> R=lookuphost T=re
> mote_smtp H=mc4.law13.hotmail.com [64.4.49.199]
> 2001-11-12 11:07:05 163Cwc-00069g-00 Completed
> 2001-11-12 11:08:17 163Cwc-00069g-00 => maggi_steenkamp@???
> R=lookuphost T=re
> mote_smtp H=mc1.law5.hotmail.com [64.4.55.71]
Gosh. Exim logs "Completed" only after it has deleted the message's
files. So the fact that there's a log entry for the same message *after*
that is most weird. Is there another "Completed" later on?
Tentative, straw-grasping, thought. Can you see if there was a queue
runner process running at the same time? If that was the case, this
suggests that there is a problem in the file locking on your host such
that it fails to prevent two deliveries happening at once. But this is
just a wild, wild, thought...
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
