Re: [exim] Segfault in 4.86 (mail queue handleing)

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Autor: Andreas Metzler
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Bjørnar Ness <bjornar.ness@???> wrote:
> I have seen this bug happening a few times in test now, and I do not
> exactly know how to reproduce, but I have seen references to it
> before as well, what I see is the following:


> 1) exim connects to remote mx to transport a message
> 2) When first message is sent, exim apparently searches its db for
> other mails with same destination
> 3) exim tries to open a queued file it finds in its database, but
> apparently cant find on the filesystem, and segfaults.
> 4) the message that actually got delivered is still in the db, but I
> think not on the filesystem.


> My setup is the following:


> 1) use localhost_number
> 2) use split_spool_directory
> 3) gnutls


> I think the problem here is first and foremost that exim segfaults
> when it cant find a message that exists in its db. I cant be the
> only one who is seeing this?


Hello,

This sounds like <https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1671> which is
fixed in GIT head and GIT exim-4_86+fixes.

cu Andreas

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