Re: [Exim] why does this happen?

Quoting Brian (bcook-exim@???):

> > More important would be if you see messages that can indicate something
> > went wrong while Exiscan was checking the contents, or why it didn't
> > remove the temporary directory.
>
> I just noticed this again..
> trying to deal with it..

Read your logfiles, please. It's no use sending us output of 'file *' or
'du -sh *' from your spool. Aparently something is going wrong, or you
are receving more mail than your server can handle.

Investigate which of those it is.

Stop your mailserver, see if there is mail on your queue, try to deliver
it in debug mode, anything...

> load on the box is like 68% :/

68% what? 5 min avg. load?

> Received: from mail.thompson.com ([207.226.10.50]
> helo=dcexchange.thompson.local)

This host sent you the (large) mail.

> anyhelp would be greatly appreciated...

Maybe you want to skip virusscanning / spamchecking mail if the size is
more than 1MB or something.

> This is the same message and same host that made this happen the last
> time..

Probably because your mailserver failed delivering it correctly, and
4xx't the remote host, which is now retrying until timed out or
accepted.

Regards,
Sander.
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