Philip,
The only pattern I can see for the junk, orphan -D files that is filling up
our spool is size. I can categorize the -D files into three types based
upon their size (about the only common feature) from looking through the
input (spool) directory from Nov 16 to date.
1. 147456 bytes - 1526 "-D" files between Dec 7 - Dec 20.
2. 163840 bytes - 436 "-D" files between Dec 18 - Dec 20.
3. 32768 bytes - 4 "-D" files between Dec 18- 19
The mails are coming from different ip addresses (can be made out amidst
the junk in the -D file). Some come from the same IP address: 150 odd
coming from the same address on Dec 18 of which I wrote about in my
previous mail (see below).
At 11:14 AM 12/19/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>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.
Its strange but there is header information in the 'junk' of the orphan -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.
Sorry about the misquote... the error message is:
2001-12-20 09:58:21 Connection from x.x.x.x refused: too many connections
> > 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.
>
>--
>Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
>ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
regards,
Reena
