Re: [exim] Spool file not found - related to exim_tinydb?

On 21/03/2021 21:44, MRob via Exim-users wrote:
> Trying to solve log message like this:
>
> 1lNmTn-00126S-SH Spool file 1lNmTn-00126S-SH-D not found
>
> I find 1lNmTn-00126S-SH-H in /var/spool/exim/input with the expected message data, but there is no -D file as error said.
>
> Error most only happening at cron time which includes to run exim_tinydb for all exim databases. Can exim_tinydb cause loss of -D files? How to prevent?

I suspect you mean exim_tidydb - and no, it should not be able to have that effect
(unless there's actually a bug in the main exim executable that happens to be
triggered by the tidying operation).

> Also now we have orphan -H file for this message (and message not delivered after error) so what is best done with the orphan?
>

Go through your logs and verify that the message was not delivered.
If it was not, warn the sender that they might want to re-send that message.

You may as well delete the -H once those are done; it's not useful
on its own.

If this is happening often, tell us anything you can think of
that might be unusual about your installation.
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Cheers,
Jeremy