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

[Stephen Gran]

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This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said:
> 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.
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> /var/spool/exim4/scan is not used by the Debian exim4 packages. I
> seriously suspect a local configuration error.

Of course it does.  That's where the exiscan patch puts it's copy
before calling any external scanners.

> > My setup uses ClamAV as a virus scanner, default delivery to local user=
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> > is by spamassassin, and then to a Maildir.
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> There are many methods to integrate ClamAV and spamassassin to exim4,
> none of which is natively supported by the exim4 packages. How did you
> do it, and how did you check that your changes are still in place?

exiscan, presumably.

> > Could also somebody please help me to get the stuck messages delivered?
> > Thanks in advance!
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> Something in the line of exim4 -qff -DSPOOL_DIR=3D/var/spool/exim4/scan
> should do the trick.

This is not a real spool directory, but a copy of the message.  That
will not do anything useful.

> Downgrading the bug to normal as this is clearly not a bug in the exim
> packages, but not closing since I'd like to help.

These messages have probably long been delivered.  This is a temporary
directory where messages are copied before being scanned.  Older
versions of the exiscan patch had a hard time cleaning up after
themselves if the scanner blew up for some reason.  Use grep or zgrep to
check for the message id (same as the folder name) in your exim logs
(/var/log/exim4/mainlog*).  I am willing to bet they have long been
delivered, and there is nothing to worry about - just cruft.
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