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Author: Rafał Kupka
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim in queue mode but after some time queues are nolonger run
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 02:49:50PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
Hello,

> exim 4.69 + few patches from cvs (buffer overflow fixes etc).
>
> It's configured to be run in queue only mode + queues are run once per 15s.
>
> Unfortunately after some time queue is no longer run, new mails are accepted
> but not delivered.
>
> Restarting exim fixes the problem for a while and after some time (few
> minutes-few days) the problem appears again.
>
> Any ideas on how to debug why queues are no longer run?


Maybe it's problem with signal delivery. Exim uses alarm(2) to run queue
runners.

Try kill -SIGALRM <pid_of_exim>. It should spawn queue runner from main
exim process.

What's exim signal masks (ps s -p <exim_pid>)?

Regards,
Kupson
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