It seems there is a pattern with some of the emails that are getting frozen.
One client has an daily 'inspirational' legitimate solicited email that she
likes to get, which is one of the first ones to get frozen. The vast
majority of the frozen messages are spam (I verify that by viewing their
bodies) with a lesser amount being legitimate ones.
However when emails have frozen in the past, I do check the exim log and it
shows that there was a timed out email saying the childprocess of spamd
timed out wile writing to the pipe. That is a very loose interpretation of
what the error was without hunting down in my 1.5gb size log.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jakob Hirsch [
mailto:jh@plonk.de]
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 6:06 PM
To: bawalker@???
Cc: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim timeout?
Bradley Walker wrote:
> - In regards to the rulesets, this is where I'm quite a bit unfamiliar
> about what truly is best. On one side I've been taught that the more
> stringent
If you have a default install of SA, you use the default rulesets, which is
ok I'd say (at least I am happy with them).
You also said that some messages get freezed. This should normally never
happen, so you should look into the exim log why this happens. For other
messages that got stuck, you should look if there's a pattern.
There's not much more I can tell you without further information.
