I have found some problems with remote deliveries or delivery logging, cannot really say which..
Upgraded from 4.84 to 4.87 and on exactly one fairly busy production system a small portion (~5%) of deliveries are not logged properly.
Grepping a specific message id from the log finds only the following lines (sensitive data replaced by xxx):
2016-04-18 20:34:58 1asD4c-0002xi-2T <= xxx@xxx U=root P=spam-scanned S=33688 id=20160418203458-gktif3jm2yzc@xxx T="xxx" from <xxx@xxx> for xxx@xxx
2016-04-18 20:36:16 1asD4c-0002xi-2T Completed
I have actually no idea if the message has been delivered or not. Has anything changed in the logging code that could either explain the seemingly random lack of logging, or cause the message to somehow fail without explanation and just mark it as completed?
The problems are not tied to specific recipients or remote hosts, as I have examples in the logs where the exact recipient has had successfully logged deliveries on one day, and a failure like above on another.
The only thing special on the only system where I have found this kind of logging problems, is that the server is doing mass-sending of emails using a dozen outgoing interfaces. Messages are routed to interface-specific smtp-transports using a hash of the recipient address. Can something in the switching of outgoing interfaces during delivery cause logging problems or silent delivery failures?
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I have uploaded Exim 4.87 to:
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This release contains the following enhancements and bugfixes:
- Internationalised mail addressing is no longer experimental
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- The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
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- Fix problem with log files being held open
- Fix a crash post-transport on missing message-IDs
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- Fix cached DNS lookups to honour TTL
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- Fix race condition in exicyclog
- Refuse unexpected arguments to exiqgrep
- Server-side advertising of TLS support now defaults to all-hosts
- Require SINGLE_DH_USE as a default, under OpenSSL
- Fix cutthrough-delivery bug on message bodies with single-dot line
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