Re: exim not delivering mail from my machine
Did fetchmail do one of its fade outs leaving the file locked. I'd do a
kill -TERM on it pid and see if the lock goes away.
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Sincerely,
David Smead
http://www.amplepower.com.
On 30 Apr 2002, Tomasz Kosinski wrote:
> I am using exim 3.32, Debian testing.
>
> I have been using exim (together with fetchmail) with no problems for 6
> months or so. As of a few days ago, I am no longer able to send mail
> from my machine (mostly single user, dial-up connection). For every
> message I try to send out, the exim log shows first that the "Spool file
> is locked (another process is handling this message)" and then that the
> connection to the remote mailhost is timed out.
>
> I do not know what I have done to cause this problem, I haven't adjusted
> any of the configuration files. I can't find which "Spool" is locked, or
> which "process" is handling the message - the "ps" command shows no
> process handling the message, and to my knowledge I haven't adjusted the
> permissions on any files.
>
> This happens no matter which if the three accounts on the system tries
> to send outgoing mail. One user reads mail with Postilion which uses
> /var/mail/user as the mailbox and that file is now 14MB, but incoming
> mail is handled normally.
>
> I can transfer mail between users on the system.
>
> I don't know how to diagnose or solve this problem - help needed and
> much appreciated.
>
> Following are bits from the exim log, showing first successful internal
> mail transfer, then an empty queue, then the queue getting locked.
>
> .....successful internal transfer....
>
> 2002-04-30 21:43:14 172j9G-0000SI-00 <= mickle@escape.com U=tomasz
> P=local S=447\
> id=86it68hcct.fsf@escape.com
> 2002-04-30 21:43:14 172j9G-0000SI-00 => tester <tester@sanmarco>
> D=localuser T=\
> local_delivery
> 2002-04-30 21:43:14 172j9G-0000SI-00 Completed
>
> .....empty queue.....
>
> 2002-04-30 21:53:02 Start queue run: pid=289
> 2002-04-30 21:53:02 End queue run: pid=289
> 2002-04-30 22:03:15 Start queue run: pid=390 -qf
> 2002-04-30 22:03:15 End queue run: pid=390 -qf
>
> ....beginning of blocked queue....
>
> 2002-04-30 22:05:36 172jUu-00006Z-00 <= mickle@escape.com U=tomasz
> P=local S=440\
> id=866628wrkf.fsf@escape.com
> 2002-04-30 22:08:01 Start queue run: pid=431
> 2002-04-30 22:08:01 172jUu-00006Z-00 Spool file is locked (another
> process is handling this message)
> 2002-04-30 22:08:01 End queue run: pid=431
> 2002-04-30 22:10:37 172jUu-00006Z-00 mailhost.panix.com [166.84.1.73]:
> Connection timed out
> 2002-04-30 22:15:37 172jUu-00006Z-00 mailhost.panix.com [166.84.1.74]:
> Connection timed out
> 2002-04-30 22:20:37 172jUu-00006Z-00 mailhost.panix.com [166.84.1.72]:
> Connection timed out
>
> Thank you
>
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