On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Reena John wrote:
> Our input directory is getting overwhelmed by -D files with NO
> corresponding -H files. I cant find any trace of these messages in the log
> files (msglog, mainlog, rejectlog, paniclog - doing a grep on them using
> the message ids). The -D files contain junk. However, the received from
> address can be seen in the -D files and they're all from the same sender.
You shouldn't see header lines in -D files.
The only way I can think of this situation occurring is if Exim is
crashing while receiving the message, leaving a partly written -D file
as wreckage. It won't have logged anything at that stage.
> A
> grep on the mainlog with that ip address shows these error messages
> "refused: too many messages." The refusal from this particular ip address
> accounts for about 10% of all refusals in the mainlog. The smtp_accept_max
> option is default (20).
Can you quote the exact error message, please? The text "refused: too many
messages" does not occur anywhere in the Exim source, so I can't
identify which error this is.
> Looking through the mailing list archives, I found a similar mail from Jun
> 1, 2001 but there was no real explanation given for this problem...
It was never resolved.
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