Author: Tomasz Kosinski Date: To: exim-users Subject: [Exim] unable to transfer mail from my machine
I am using exim 3.32, Debian testing.
I have been using exim (together with fetchmail) with no problems for 6
months or so. As of a few days ago, I am no longer able to send mail
from my machine (mostly single user, dial-up connection). For every
message I try to send out, the exim log shows first that the "Spool file
is locked (another process is handling this message)" and then that the
connection to the remote mailhost is timed out.
I do not know what I have done to cause this problem, I haven't adjusted
any of the configuration files. I can't find which "Spool" is locked, or
which "process" is handling the message - the "ps" command shows no
process handling the message, and to my knowledge I haven't adjusted the
permissions on any files.
This happens no matter which if the three accounts on the system tries
to send outgoing mail. One user reads mail with Postilion which uses
/var/mail/user as the mailbox and that file is now 14MB, but incoming
mail is handled normally.
I can transfer mail between users on the system.
I don't know how to diagnose or solve this problem - help needed and
much appreciated.
Following are bits from the exim log, showing first successful internal
mail transfer, then an empty queue, then the queue getting locked.
