Re: [Exim] Spoolfile error with Exim 4.04 / MacOS X

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Author: John W Baxter
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Spoolfile error with Exim 4.04 / MacOS X
At 14:53 +0200 5/8/2002, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
>On Wed, 8 May 2002, Georg v. Zezschwitz wrote:
>
> > What I find in the paniclog is:
> >
> > 2002-05-08 13:36:10 175Pju-0000B5-0a Failed to create spool file
>/var/spool/exim/input//175Pju-0000B5-0a-D: File exists
>
>iiiha. unlucky you :)
>
>without any macos knowledge, but guys around using macs, i'd say
>you've hit a nice "feature" of the darwin fs - namely that it is
>case-insensitive, while being case-preserving. and, the method by
>which the names of the spool file are generated, does need a
>case-sensitive filesystem.
>
>i think you're out of luck here as long as you're using hfs+ (or apple
>`fixes' it).


In a very recent update, Philip provided a switch which makes the message
IDs base 36 rather than base 62, this dealing with the problem. He did
this for Cygwin, but it should apply to Mac OS X as well. Check the change
notes.

The good news is that 4.04 is certainly new enough.

--John

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John Baxter   jwblist@???      Port Ludlow, WA, USA