Re: [Exim] exim_dump problems

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Phil Chambers
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim_dump problems
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Phil Chambers wrote:

> I have just encountered problems with exim_dump on the retry and reject dbms.
>
> I am running exim 3.33. If I run "exim_dump ... retry" I get several lines on the
> stderr like:
>
> **** Entry: "T;........" was in the key scan, but the record was not found in the
> file - something is wrong!


Never seen that before. It suggests there is a mismatch between your
database and your database library, or that the database has got
corrupted somehow.

> I can see no sign that Exim is bothered by the db files, but would like to tidy
> things up. What is the best way forward please?


rm /var/spool/exim/db/*

Let Exim start again.


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