Author: necktwi Date: To: Jeremy Harris CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] SMTP error from remote mail server after pipelined MAIL
> On 27-Sep-2019, at 12:49 AM, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
>
> On 26/09/2019 19:41, Heiko Schlittermann via Exim-users wrote:
>> Jeremy Harris via Exim-users <exim-users@???> (Mi 25 Sep 2019 10:26:14 EDT):
>>> Problem A) you have a corrupt file. The message even advises what to
>>> do; did you do that?
>>
>> While we still should consider external influence as a root cause for
>> this database corruption, I got reports of a major Exim user, that
>> they're used to remove the hintfiles regularly, as the Berkeley DB isn't
>> that robust as it should be.
>>
>> Of course, we should be sure, that it is not Exim that creates the
>> corrupt files by inserting invalid data (I didn't look into the source
>> right now. Is there some chance to have a duplicate of the
>> printing/unprinting thing?)
>
> Hmm. I was suspecting a storage issue, given the system name "RPi1B2". I have mounted a 500GB btrfs HDD on /var, /tmp and /usr/src. I use Gentoo with musl on this RPi.
