Actually, I posted what the log says in a previous message... I still
have no idea why the hell exim is running with uid=8 euid=8 ... that's
UID=adm GID=adm it's not *SUPPOSED* to be. the exim.conf file and the
own/mod info on the program itself say it shouldn't be doing that at
all... even if it was running mail.mail, it would be UID=12 GID=12 ...
But here we go again...
(I finally added to crontab */5 * * * * /usr/sbin/exim -qff >/dev/null
2>&1 just to get the damn queue cleaned out of frozen messages.)
It would eventually come back and do the local deliveries, but sometimes
it would take 5-7 hours. (thus my original complaint about messages
arriving and being buried since I have them sorted by received
date/time... which is when the mail server received it, not when I
received it.) I'd rather not have such a colossal kludge on my mail
server, but until I can get it to work I have no choice.
/root/ # exigrep 17IhZ0-0005mD-00 /var/log/exim/exim_mainlog
2002-06-13 22:15:50 17IhZ0-0005mD-00 <= emailbot@???
H=vader.labnet.com (vader) [205.238.148.11] P=smtp S=1287
2002-06-13 22:15:50 17IhZ0-0005mD-00 Unable to get root to set uid 60003
and gid 12 for local delivery to patricia: uid=8 euid=8
2002-06-13 22:15:50 17IhZ0-0005mD-00 failed to read delivery status for
patricia@??? from delivery subprocess
2002-06-13 22:15:50 17IhZ0-0005mD-00 appendfile transport process
returned non-zero status 0x0100: exit code 1
2002-06-13 22:15:50 17IhZ0-0005mD-00 == patricia@???
T=virtual_local_delivery defer (-1)
2002-06-13 22:15:50 17IhZ0-0005mD-00 Frozen
2002-06-13 22:16:26 17IhZ0-0005mD-00 Message is frozen
2002-06-13 22:16:36 17IhZ0-0005mD-00 Message is frozen
2002-06-13 22:20:03 17IhZ0-0005mD-00 Unfrozen by forced delivery
2002-06-13 22:20:03 17IhZ0-0005mD-00 => patricia
<patricia@???> D=virtual_localuser T=virtual_local_delivery
2002-06-13 22:20:03 17IhZ0-0005mD-00 Completed
System Info:
Linux Mandrake 8.2 (2.4.18-6mdk kernel)
Pentium II-400 Mhz
128Mb RAM (yeah well, all it does is mail)
6.5GB IDE HDD running at 66Mhz UDMA
3COM 3C590 integrated 10/100 NIC running at 10Mbit.
Full T1 link.
all firewall/port protection is software based on the individual
systems.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Hazel [mailto:ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 4:18 AM
> To: Cory Daehn
> Cc: 'Derrick 'dman' Hudson'; 'Exim-User (E-mail)'
> Subject: RE: [Exim] Re: Re: Frozen incoming messages?
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Cory Daehn wrote:
>
> > The Mail queue is still freezing messages upon arrival.
>
> What does the log say?
>
> > Could the system load average have something to do with why exim is
> > freezing messages rather than delivering them? What is the default
> > behaviour for that feature?
>
> Exim should not freeze for load problems. It should just
> delay delivery. There should be an entry in the log stating
> why it has frozen a message.
>
> > As I've said before, the docs online are
> > about as helpful as a kick in the pants, even _IF_ you do know
> > something about how internet e-mail works....
>
> Sorry about that. I do my best in the time available to me...
> I'm always open to suggestions for improvement. But the
> online specification is indeed, just a specification, not a
> tutorial. The O'Reilly book attempts to be more of a tutorial.
>
> > I do however, wish that they had a separate mailing list for the 4.0
>
> I can hardly keep up with one mailing list. Besides, a lot of
> points are common to both.
>
> --
> Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
>
>
>
