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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Oliver Egginger
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Under which circumstances Exim sends an automatically generatedmessage to an extern user?
On 9 Dec 2002, Oliver Egginger wrote:

> today I saw in the logfile a message like this
>
> 2002-12-09 14:54:16 12002-12-09 14:54:16 18LOMR-0002Vn-00 =>
> xxxx.xxxx@??? <xxxx.xxxx@???> R=smart_route T=remote_smtp
> H=merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]
>
> I found no corresponding incomming message, only this single outgoing
> one.


That is very strange. Are you quite sure there's no "arrival" message?
It would have been around 13:54:15.

> There was no messages in the queue for longer then 20 min and the
> receipient of this message was no local user.
>
> Under which circumstances Exim sends an automatically generated message
> to an extern user?


Never.

> Maybe an impotant hint:
> As a result of an misconfiguration there was no space left on the root
> partition at that time the message was send.
> But I don't think that this have caused the message.
> (/var/spool/mail is mounted on it's own partition.)


Is your Exim log in the root partition? Is there anything on your system
log around 13:54:15? Is there anything in the Exim panic log?

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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