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Author: Bill Hacker
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Bug in exim
Russell Stuart wrote:

> Exim Version: 4.43 + exiscan
> OS:           Debian Sarge
> Config files: http://www.lubemobile.com.au/ras/exim4

>
> At http://www.lubemobile.com.au/ras/exim4 you will
> find a file called "lost". In there is a list of 102
> recipients that didn't receive an email sent via exim.
> This list has been extracted from the log files you can
> find on the same web page. The program that extracted
> them is also there.
>
> By lost, I mean that in mainlog you can see the message
> come in. You can also see the recipients it is destined
> to. Later on you will see a "Completed" line for the
> message, but the recipients listed in "lost" were never
> sent the message. You can tell by noting the absence of
> "... => recipient" or ".... -> recipient" lines.
>
> All the messages that were lost got an LMTP 4.x.x error
> while they were being passed to the virus scanner. All
> the messages bar that got an LMTP 4.x.x error, bar one,
> had a recipient dropped. A couple had more than one
> recipient dropped.
>
> Although the source of the LMTP error is probably not
> relevant, it is caused by some issue with the Kaspersky
> anti virus scanner we are using. It had been working
> well, but at about the end of January Kaspersky released
> major update, which according to the their representatives
> here in Australia overloaded their virus pattern update
> servers. Thereafter the update server has been slow
> and unreliable. During the update process the anti
> virus daemon is disabled, and this is the source of the
> LMTP errors. What has changed is that because of the
> issues Kaspersky is having, daemon is being disabled
> far more often than it was before.
>
>


Russell,

Took some time this morning to look at the configure file you posted.

You have some inconsistent, known-dodgy, and even contradictory settings
in it.

Best do some work on it, else expect to get your knickers wrapped around
the driveshaft on more issues than the above.

Bill




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