> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-admin@???
> [mailto:exim-users-admin@exim.org] On Behalf Of Derrick 'dman' Hudson
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 6:46 PM
> To: 'Exim-User (E-mail)'
> Subject: [Exim] Re: Frozen incoming messages?
>
>
> Is exim set-user-id root? I don't think it is. The log
> tells why the message is frozen :
> Unable to get root to set uid 502 and gid 12 for local
> delivery to labinski: uid=8 euid=8
> failed to read delivery status for labinski@???
> from delivery subprocess
> appendfile transport process returned non-zero status
> 0x0100: exit code 1
>
> The most interesting part, for you, is *Unable to get root*.
>
> (all messages are both incoming and outgoing, BTW)
Nope, it's set right. I have user = root and group = mail in the
/etc/exim.conf also.
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root mail Jun 13 21:32 593K exim
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root Jun 13 21:40 4 sendmail
-> exim
By the way, I finally got a response on a good bit of my frozen
messages.
Sure enough, in /etc/sysctl.conf I had:
net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 1
Just set that to off and rebooted... Problem solved with connections
timed out to a lot of servers.
Here's the info he gave me:
-----Original Message-----
From: Donald L. Nash
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 4:31 PM
To: Cory Daehn
Subject: Re: Problems with SMTP
Looks like you're running Linux. Do you have the Explicit Congestion
Notification feature turned on? ECN is not compatible with the Cisco
LocalDirector we're using on mail.utexas.edu. The symptoms you describe
are consistent with this particular failure mode.
