Bug#303130: exim4-daemon-heavy: exim4 "forgets" emails in /var/spool/exim4/scan, leaving emails undelivered without notice

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:19 AM, Marc Haber
<mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:58:47AM +0200, Sebastian Hegler wrote:
>> Lately, I found lots of undelivered emails in /var/spool/exim4/scan.
>
> /var/spool/exim4/scan is not used by the Debian exim4 packages. I
> seriously suspect a local configuration error.

That directory is used by exiscan to unpack files in to when the demime acl
condition is used (I assume also the decode condition in the MIME ACL). The
usual cause of files remaining there is a crashed or terminated instance of
exim/ClamAV/spamassassin which hasn't been able to tidy up after itself.

[...]
>> Could also somebody please help me to get the stuck messages
>> delivered? Thanks in advance!
>
> Something in the line of exim4 -qff -DSPOOL_DIR=/var/spool/exim4/scan
> should do the trick.

Sadly that's unlikely to work, as the directory contains a series of .eml
files containing the mails being scanned, together with their attachments in
individual files, rather than an exim format spool directory.

Regards,

Adam