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

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:43:46PM +0200, Sebastian Hegler wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
> > 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?
> Sorry, I cannot. These messages I found are very old, so there are no
> more logs available.  I stumbled over those messages in search for other
> emails which people said were not delivered. As I said, my server is
> plagued by low memory conditions, so the scanning processes blow quite
> often.
> 
> Well, I do hope that Stephen is right. The oldest message lying around
> dates back to November 2004. Was exiscan working alright then?

I do not remember any bug report regarding an exiscan malfunction with
this symptoms. But, again, I am not (yet) using this part of the
software (the + in my mail addresses' local part seems to fool
spammers).

Greetings
Marc

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