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Author: Oliver Egginger
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To: exim-users
Old-Topics: Re: [Exim] Under which circumstances Exim sends an automaticallygeneratedmessage to an extern user?
Subject: Re: [Exim] Under which circumstances Exim sends anautomaticallygeneratedmessageto an extern user?
Am Die, 2002-12-10 um 14.59 schrieb Philip Hazel:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, oliver wrote:
>
> > > Is your Exim log in the root partition?
> >
> > Yes it is.
>
> Then that is presumably why Exim couldn't write a <= line when the
> message arrived.
>


I suppose it was cached into the memory but I have to ask my
OS producer about this.

When I take a look at Exims logfile the obvious fact is, that many
message deliverys was loged normaly at the time when the root partition
was full (thats was about 40 minutes).
Also the system made his normal entrys to the syslogs.
I found nothing out of the ordinary.

On the other hand you could be right, cause I don't know exactly
whats happens when the root fs is up to 100%.

> > Here are the corresponding log entrys:
> >
> > 2002-12-09 14:52:45 18LOKu-0002UL-00 <= user1@??? H=merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12] P=esmtp S=2376 id=xxxx
> > 2002-12-09 14:52:45 18LOKu-0002UL-00 => user2 <user2@???> R=localuser T=local_delivery ST=local_backup_delivery (No space left on device: error while writing to /mailserv2/user2)
> > 2002-12-09 14:52:45 18LOKu-0002UL-00 Completed
> >
> > And then 91 seconds later Exim send another message to this (extern) user:
> >
> > 2002-12-09 14:54:16 12002-12-09 14:54:16 18LOMR-0002Vn-00 => user1@??? <user1@???> R=smart_route T=remote_smtp H=merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]
> > 2002-12-09 14:54:16 18LOMR-0002Vn-00 18LOMR-0002Vn-00Completed
> >
> > I found no matching timeout value into my configuration file,
> > but could the shadow transport error cause Exim to send this message?
>
> No. Once it is run, it is run, and that's the end of it. But since the
> error is "no space left on device", presumably that means there was no
> space left for writing the log line for the incoming message.
>


(But there was space for many other log lines.)

> 18LOMR is 13:54:15, which corresponds nicely.
>


This log line has an odd format too:
2002-12-09 14:54:16 12002-12-09 14:54:16 18LOMR-0002Vn-00 => user1@...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It looks like, that the log line for the incomming message was cut and
then it writes the log line for the outgoing message.

Maybe the Exim process, who had to deliver this message, couldn't
get any log space at this moment.

- oliver