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Re: multiple exim4 processes



On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:31:41AM -0700, vadik wrote:
| Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| 
| >On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:24:17AM -0700, Vadik wrote:
| >| I am running exim4, and it runs in multiple processes:
| >
| >This is normal.
| >
| >| and this is after I stoped the server.  Is this normal?
| >
| >No.  After stopping the server it shouldn't still be running.
| >
| >at once.  If there is some problem (eg network blocked by ISP) then
| >the delivery processes could run for a considerable amount of time
| >before terminating.
| >
|
| Thank you,

You're welcome.

| This explains the behavior.  For some reason Exim4 open relaying, and 
| someone was relaying a lot of spam, most of which didn't have valid 
| email, so exim4 was trying for a while.

Yeah, that would cause the symptons you saw.

| After I manually killed all exim4 process it works fine.

Until next time ... ;-)

| Now the question remain, why did exam4 open relaying.

The answer is in your log files (probably /var/log/exim/maillog).
Find the first entry pertaining to a given message.  That will show
how exim was given and accepted the message on the queue.  With that
knowledge you can double-check your configuration and see why that was
allowed and how to disallow it.

-D

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