On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Oliver Egginger wrote:
> We using Exim 3.33.
> On our system are data files without header files.
There were a couple of reports of this on the list not long before
Christmas. We never found out what the cause of the problem was. What
operating system are you using?
> Sixteen since the 10. december.
> Two of them are empty.
> The other Fourteen looks like normal data files.
> There are no registrations with a corresponding message ID
> in the exim logfiles.
The only way I can imagine that this could happen is for a process or
system crash while Exim is creating a -D file as it reads a message. I
spent some time looking at the code in accept.c, trying to figure out
where such a crash might happen, but I did not succeed.
> Is there a possibility to send the
> data before the header information ?
The data file is written first. The header information is held in main
memory until the data file is complete. Then the header information is
written to a temporary file which is renamed as the -H file.
I would very much like to pin down what is happening here, but I'm
afraid that so far I haven't been able to.
Philip
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