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Autor: Marc Haber
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Assumpte: [exim-dev] [Debian normal bug #303130] Re: Bug#303130: exim4-daemon-heavy: exim4 "forgets" emails in /var/spool/exim4/scan
Hi,

this is Debian bug 303130 (http://bugs.debian.org/303130), reporting
issues that exiscan does not properly clean up if a scanner crashes. I
am not (yet) using exiscan myself, so I cannot judge that myself.

Does exiscan currently clean up properly on a scanner failure?

Greetings
Marc

----- Forwarded message from Stephen Gran <sgran@???> -----

> From: Stephen Gran <sgran@???>
> Subject: Re: Bug#303130: exim4-daemon-heavy: exim4 "forgets" emails in /var/spool/exim4/scan, leaving emails undelivered without notice
> To: Sebastian Hegler <s_hegler@???>
> Cc: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@???>, 303130@???
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:38:09 -0400
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i
>
> This one time, at band camp, Sebastian Hegler said:
> > Marc Haber wrote:
> > > Sebastian, can you please verify whether Stephen's hypothesis is
> > > true for your system and try to deliver some proof that there were
> > > indeed messages lost?
> > Sorry, I cannot. These messages I found are very old, so there are no
> > more logs available. I stumbled over those messages in search for
> > other emails which people said were not delivered. As I said, my
> > server is plagued by low memory conditions, so the scanning processes
> > blow quite often.
> >
> > Well, I do hope that Stephen is right. The oldest message lying around
> > dates back to November 2004. Was exiscan working alright then?
>
> What I have observed is that when the exiscan patch blows chunks, a copy
> is saved in the scan/ directory.  However, this is not a lost email - it
> it an incoming email that failed to make it past one of the scanners,
> and has never been 2xx accepted for delivery after that DATA phase.  It
> would of course be ideal if the exiscan patch cleaned up completely, but
> it is usually an external scanner blowup at the root of it, so I have
> never reported it against exiscan.
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