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

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:36:11AM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for helping out. The packages have obviously reached a level of
complexity where I fail in seeing features work. I apologize for being
wrong this morning.

Sebastian, can you please verify whether Stephen's hypothesis is true
for your system and try to deliver some proof that there were indeed
messages lost?

Greetings
Marc

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