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Author: necktwi
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To: Jeremy Harris
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] SMTP error from remote mail server after pipelined MAIL

... Necktwi

> On 25-Sep-2019, at 7:56 PM, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
>
> On 25/09/2019 14:58, necktwi via Exim-users wrote:
>> Sep 25 13:49:20 RPi1B2 exim[17968]: 2019-09-25 19:19:20 1iAKfN-0005uK-Ol Berkeley DB error: BDB0058 page 36968: illegal page type or format
>> Sep 25 13:49:20 RPi1B2 exim[17968]: 2019-09-25 19:19:20 1iAKfN-0005uK-Ol Berkeley DB error: BDB0061 PANIC: Invalid argument
>> Sep 25 13:49:20 RPi1B2 exim[17968]: 2019-09-25 19:19:20 1iAKfN-0005uK-Ol Berkeley DB error: BDB0060 PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
>> ...
>
> Problem A) you have a corrupt file. The message even advises what to
> do; did you do that?

How to run recovery? I tried rm -rf /var/spool/exim/db/* and started the exim
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>> Sep 25 13:49:30 RPi1B2 exim[17984]: 2019-09-25 19:19:30 1iAKfR-0005uN-2q H=mta7.am0.yahoodns.net [67.195.204.77]: SMTP error from remote mail server after pipelined MAIL FROM:<info@???> SIZE=4878: 421 4.7.0 [TSS04] Messages from 175.101.146.135 temporarily deferred due to user complaints - 4.16.55.1; see https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN3434.html
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> Problem B) Yahoo don't like you. We can't help with that.
>
>
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>> Sep 25 13:49:32 RPi1B2 exim[17983]: 2019-09-25 19:19:32 1iAKfR-0005uN-2q H=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [172.217.194.27]: SMTP error from remote mail server after pipelined end of data: 421-4.7.0 [175.101.146.135      15] Our system has detected that this message is\n421-4.7.0 suspicious due to the very low reputation of the sending IP address.\n421-4.7.0 To protect our users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has\n421-4.7.0 been temporarily rate limited. Please visit\n421 4.7.0  https://support.google.com/mail/answer/188131 for more information. x19si4949139pll.139 - gsmtp

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> Problem C) Google doesn't like you. We can't help with that.

These messages are being flooded every second! How did info@??? pipeline mail to yahoo from my server? I didn't send any mail to any gmail user and how come my exim server is pipelining a request to gmail server every second?
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>> And there are about 10 exim processes still running after I do rc-service exim stop.
>
> Yes, exim create sub-processes to do work. If your service-manager does
> not treat them as a group, and wait for all to finish, then you have to
> do that yourself. "exiwhat" is a useful tool for checking what each
> process is doing.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
>
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