Bug#301906: exim4: Mail messages sent to local addresses are lost

Vincent Lefevre Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>, 301906@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 29 Mar 2005 05:02:45 +0200


Package: exim4
Version: 4.50-4
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss

For several days, all messages sent to local addresses are lost.
In /var/log/exim4/mainlog:

2005-03-29 04:50:40 1DG6oS-0003Xy-KZ <= vincent@vinc17.org U=lefevre P=local S=711 id=20050329025040.GS19392@ay.vinc17.org
2005-03-29 04:50:40 1DG6oS-0003Xy-KZ ** lefevre@ay: Unrouteable address

"ay" is the mailname value, so that it should be the local route
as before.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.50 #1 built 02-Mar-2005 19:38:55
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December  3, 2003)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'

dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='true'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='smtp.nerim.net'

CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname=''
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
mailname:ay

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-powerpc
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  exim4-base                    4.50-4     support files for all exim MTA (v4
ii  exim4-daemon-light            4.50-4     lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon

-- no debconf information