> What operating system are you using?
We use mandrake 8.0 with a 2.4.8 linux kernel and the
ext2 filesystem.
We receive one or two thousand mails on a day.
> There were a couple of reports of this on the list not long before
> Christmas.
I was in holidays.
I have found the thread "no -H files in input directory".
Thank you for the hint.
Oliver
> 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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