Re: [exim] Exim down

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Author: Phil Pennock
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To: Hotmail
CC: exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim down
On 2012-02-23 at 10:59 +0100, Hotmail wrote:
> I have a problem with exim and i don't understand what happened.
> During one day, mails don't arrive in my application and i can't determine if it s an exim problem or other.
> Could you tell me where are stored incoming mails in exim?


Run "exim -bp" to see the mails in the queue.

To see the files on disk, run "exim -bP spool_directory", see the input/
subdirectory under there.

> 2012-02-11 21:44:14 Start queue run: pid=28384
> 2012-02-11 21:44:14 End queue run: pid=28384


These are the periodic queue-runners; one starts, does nothing because
there's nothing to look at, then ends.

> 2012-02-11 22:15:00 exim 4.67 daemon started: pid=2467, -q10m, listening for SMTP on port 2525 (IPv4)


This shows that you have queue-runners every 10 minutes, but you *also*
have a non-standard port, so perhaps you have two instances of Exim
running, each with their own spool? See which configuration file is
used for port 2525, then use "exim -C /path/to/that/config -bp" instead.

You *should* have different log-files for each Exim instance. Look at
those to see what was done. "exim -bP log_file_path".

-Phil