Re: [exim] Spool file not found

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Author: Rob Gunther
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To: Exim Mailing List
Subject: Re: [exim] Spool file not found
I ended up just upgrading to 4.87 and the problem went away. I did not see
anything in the release notes that might have indicated the fix but at
least for now the problem is gone.

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Heiko Schlittermann <hs@???>
wrote:

> Rob Gunther <redrob@???> (So 10 Apr 2016 06:58:43 CEST):
> > I keep getting a bunch of spool file not found errors, like this:
> >
> > 2016-04-09 00:34:13 1aogqr-0001Nl-MN Spool file 1amYf4-0008Hm-7j-D not
> found
> > 2016-04-09 00:34:13 1aogqr-0001Nl-MN Spool file 1amYgz-0008Ke-Hp-D not
> found
> > 2016-04-09 00:34:13 1aogqr-0001Nl-MN Spool file 1amYgz-0008KT-Dj-D not
> found
> > 2016-04-09 00:34:13 1aogqr-0001Nl-MN Spool file 1amYf4-0008Hl-7i-D not
> found
> > 2016-04-09 00:34:13 1aogqr-0001Nl-MN Spool file 1amYf4-0008Ha-1s-D not
> found
>
> The logging logs confusing
>
>     <date> <time> <some-id> Spool file <otherspool-id> not found

>
> The timestamp of the first id 1aogqr-… is Sat Apr  9 00:34:13 UTC 2016
> The timestamp of the 2nd id in the (first) line is
>                                          Sun Apr  3 03:25:14 UTC 2016

>
> I'm not sure, if I ever saw such lines. (The timestamp of the id is the
> part before the first '-', it's encoded base62,
> I used 'exim -be ${base62d:…}' do decode it.
>
> But, I think there is one instance running for 1aogqr-0001Nl-MN,
> handling messages for the specific destination. And now it's checking
> the retry database for other messages waiting for this destination.
>
> And there are messages mentioned which are not there anymore. This
> should not happen, it looks indeed like a corrupted retry database (or
> is it *_wait, having the message ids for a specific destination?)
>
> Try, if an exim_tidydb … helps.
>
>
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