RE: [exim] log error

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Auteur: Ron McKeating
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À: Hochstrasser Benedikt
CC: Exim-Users \(E-mail\)
Sujet: RE: [exim] log error
On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 12:39, Hochstrasser Benedikt wrote:
> Ron McKeating wrote:
>
> >>>
> can anybody tell me why this error occurs, user is trying to send a 28
> M/B attachment using Outlook Express, latest exim, big gnarly server
> with lots of disk space and 4 G Ram.
>
> 1C39cr-0000iS-N9 Spool file is locked (another process is handling this
> message)
> <<<
>
> Looks as if one instance of exim is currently sending the mail to its
> destination while a queue runner tries to take care of stale mail.
> (After all, an 28MB attachment results in a 37MB mail file (base64
> encoding -> 4/3 the binary size. This takes some time to transmit with
> that old 9600 modem... <g>)
>
> No big deal. Live with it.
>


Thanks Ben, I must check out if our twin Connections to the Joint
Academic Network (JANET) really are 9600 modems :-), could be a bit of a
bottleneck from our gigabit ethernet spine.

Cheers

Ron
> --
> Ben

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Ron McKeating
Senior IT Services Specialist
Internet Services and Software Solutions
Loughborough University
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