Re: [Exim] exim amavisd-new

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Author: Kevin Reed
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim amavisd-new
Simon Lange said:
> Hi,
>
> since a couple of month i have some strange symptoms around here with
> exim4 and revent amavisd-net running.
>
> everything runs fine but suddenly exim defers every mail he gets. no
> matter if from queue or via smtp.
>
> SNIP
> 2004-01-21 11:11:27 1AjFDv-0007gF-SO == webmaster@??? R=amavis
> T=amavis defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host
>
> the only way to fix this by hand is to stop exim; empty the folders
> /var/spool/exim/db
> /var/spool/exim/input
> and starting exim again.
>
> may sumone have an idea what goes wrong here?!


I would venture a guess that you are not using exim-tidydb to
clear your hints database.

I don't use amavisd so I'm not sure how it works, but if you remove the db
files, you are essentially doing what exim-tidydb does.

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