On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Steve Romero wrote:
> I've run into a problem with Exim 3.22 after upgrading to Solaris 8. I'm
> not exactly sure what is going on, but it appears that many copies of the
> same bounced message (different message IDs however) generated by Exim are
> getting frozen and stored under /var/spool/exim/input. These frozen
> messages are stored as body only, no header, and they are filling up the
> /var filesystem very fast:
>
> -rw------- 1 exim mail 155648 Dec 18 16:35 16GNCp-0007IZ-00-D
> -rw------- 1 exim mail 155648 Dec 18 16:35 16GNCr-0007JG-00-D
> -rw------- 1 exim mail 155648 Dec 18 16:35 16GNCt-0007JR-00-D
> -rw------- 1 exim mail 155648 Dec 18 16:35 16GNCu-0007JT-00-D
> -rw------- 1 exim mail 155648 Dec 18 16:35 16GNCy-0007JX-00-D
> -rw------- 1 exim mail 155648 Dec 18 16:35 16GND0-0007Jd-00-D
> -rw------- 1 exim mail 155648 Dec 18 16:35 16GND2-0007Je-00-D
> etc., etc.
Is there anything in the Exim logs that refers to those message IDs?
> When issuing:
>
> bash-2.03# exim -Mvb 16GSyC-0006Vt-00 | more
>
> 16GSyC-0006Vt-00-D
> wishes,
>
> Human contact: <postmaster\@>
> MULTIPLEFOOTER
>
> my $single_bounce_footer = <<SINGLEFOOTER;
> You may reply to this email and it will be read by someone who will do
> their best to help you. You may Tue, 18 Dec 2001 22:44:21 +0000Received:
> from ns1.registed.net ([212.83.156.100] helo=serapwin.fr.wo
> rldonline.com)
Looks like total junk, doesn't it?
> It seems like the perl rules file (exim.pl) is failing somewhere. Does
> anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
I don't grok "the perl rules file (exim.pl)". It is not part of the
standard Exim distribution.
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