[exim] Ongoing email issues

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Author: Daryl Richards
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: [exim] Ongoing email issues
Hello,

I don't know if this is related to any of the other crash issues
reported lately, so I'll start a new message in case it isn't.

Two different servers, both on FreeBSD 10.3, both with latest exim port
(exim-4.88_2) are often having the exim process crash during mail
delivery. In my system log, I see many of:

.....
pid 61062 (exim), uid 26: exited on signal 11
pid 61733 (exim), uid 26: exited on signal 11
pid 63665 (exim), uid 26: exited on signal 11
pid 75168 (exim), uid 26: exited on signal 11
pid 79529 (exim), uid 26: exited on signal 11
pid 81047 (exim), uid 26: exited on signal 11
pid 83091 (exim), uid 26: exited on signal 11
pid 83868 (exim), uid 26: exited on signal 11
pid 90324 (exim), uid 26: exited on signal 11
pid 92003 (exim), uid 26: exited on signal 11
....

In the exim mainlog, I see thousands of lines (each time it crashes,
sometimes 10s of thousands of lines) like:

.....
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
2017-02-27 00:05:44 [25045] 1ciDLb-0006Vx-92 SSL_write: (from
smtp24.elabs11.com [74.116.234.24]:44780) syscall: Broken pipe
.....

I've tried re-compiling all ports, no help. I've tried changing various
SSL parameters, no help.

Is this likely related to some of the other crashes that people have
been working through lately? If so, I'd be willing to test the newer RCs
if someone could help point me in a direction to have it compile under
the ports framework so I know my options are the same...

If it's something new, if I can submit more information to track this
down, let me know.

Thanks