I've checked, definitely no other completion lines.
The frustrating thing is that this seems to happen two or three times a day
to a very few users, so spotting it is very difficult.
It might well be something to do with the queue runners, some of the
duplicates are 5 minutes give or take a few seconds apart from each other
( exim runs as /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q5m) I'll increase the time to 20 minutes
and see what happens.
Any suggestions on how to go about testing the file locking?
Ed.
-----Original Message-----
From: exim-users-admin@??? [
mailto:exim-users-admin@exim.org]On
Behalf Of Philip Hazel
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:27 PM
To: Ed Pascoe
Cc: Exim-Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim sending duplicates of mail after completion.
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 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...
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