On Friday 07 January 2005 18:50, Ron McKeating wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 15:57 +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Ron McKeating wrote:
> > > ls /usr/local/exim/spool/input/P/
> > >
> > > I get
> > >
> > > rw-r----- 1 exim nobody 2914 Nov 1 09:18 1COYKP-0003xo-Bj-D
> > > -rw-r----- 1 exim nobody 1167 Nov 1 09:18 1COYKP-0003xo-Bj-H
> >
> > How did that happen? The message whose ID is 1COYKP-0003xo-Bj should be
> > in the /usr/local/exim/spool/input/o/ directory, not the .../P/
> > directory (assuming you have split_spool_directory set). That's why Exim
> > can't find it.
>
> Hmmm very confused. We tend not to bugger about with spool directories
> much. So lets do a little test
>
> ls -la /usr/local/exim/spool/input/b
> gives
> -rw-r----- 1 exim nobody 278 Nov 1 23:47 1COltb-0000Zi-Op-D
> -rw-r----- 1 exim nobody 1166 Nov 1 23:47 1COltb-0000Zi-Op-H
> -rw-r----- 1 exim nobody 5210 Nov 2 08:33 1COu6b-0003d2-1w-D
> -rw-r----- 1 exim nobody 24308 Nov 2 08:44 1COu6b-0003d2-1w-H
Hmmm indeed. I tend to agree with Ron here. Did you do exim -bP
spool_directory as Phil suggested then? What's the output?
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