[exim-dev] failure to transfer data from subprocess?

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Author: Robert Nicholson
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Subject: [exim-dev] failure to transfer data from subprocess?
Is it clear from the errors below that the issue happen prior to the .forward file being read?

Can anybody assist with this issue.

Recently I noticed mail was going missing and upon looking thru the logs I found many of these

It doesn’t happen for all mail though but it’s not clear what’s special about the ones that are impacted.

I have masked the actual addresses.

2023-05-07 01:48:49 1pueGF-000myaddress@hostname1iu-1Z == myaddress@hostname<myaddress@???> R=userforward defer (-1): internal problem in userforward router (recipient is myaddress@hostname): failure to transfer data from subprocess: status=0100 readerror='No such file or directory'
2023-05-07 02:48:49 1pueGF-0001iu-1Z SIGSEGV (fault address: (nil))
2023-05-07 02:48:49 1pueGF-0001iu-1Z SIGSEGV (null pointer indirection)
2023-05-07 02:48:49 1pueGF-0001iu-1Z internal problem in userforward router (recipient is myaddress@hostname): failure to transfer data from subprocess: status=0100 readerror='No such file or directory'
2023-05-07 02:48:49 1pueGF-0001iu-1Z == myaddress@hostname<myaddress@???> R=userforward defer (-1): internal problem in userforward router (recipient i

……

the setup is

I have a .forward file so I’m relying no the userforward router.

I am not the administrator of the machine but I’m trying to collect information for that person to resolve this issue.

It seems to have started doing this this year and not prior.

exim --version
Exim version 4.96-58-g4e9ed49f8 #2 built 07-Jan-2023 06:47:04
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2018
(c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 - 2022
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.3.21: (May 11, 2012)
Support for: crypteq IPv6 Perl OpenSSL TLS_resume move_frozen_messages Content_Scanning DKIM DNSSEC Event OCSP PIPECONNECT PRDR Queue_Ramp SPF SRS TCP_Fast_Open
Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmjz dbmnz dnsdb
Authenticators: cram_md5 dovecot plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Malware: f-protd f-prot6d drweb aveserver fsecure kavdaemon sophie clamd mksd avast sock cmdline
Fixed never_users: 0
Configure owner: 0:0
Size of off_t: 8
2023-05-10 06:25:57 cwd=/home/elastica 2 args: exim --version
Configuration file is /etc/exim.conf

exim -bt localuser
localuser@host -> |nice -10 $home/perlscripts/filter.pl -runsa
transport = address_pipe

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