Bug#538340: exim4-daemon-heavy: Exim segfaults sending mail

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2009-07-25 "David A. Greene" <dag at cray.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 25 July 2009 02:16:50 you wrote:
> > > exim4[7068]: segfault at 2c ip 782ebf3 sp bfb32aac error 4 in
> > > libc-2.9.so[b77b8000+13c000]

[...]

> > * check whether temporarily moving away the contents of
> >   /var/spool/exim4/db/ solves the problem?

> Yes, this worked,

> Since the original bug report went through, sending mail from the 
> server itself works fine.  When other machines on the network try to 
> send through the server, it faults,

Hello,

am I understanding this correctly:

1. without the broken /var/spool/exim4/db/* everything works as
expected

and

2. even with the broken /var/spool/exim4/db/* locally generated mail
works fine, just incoming remote mail breaks.

thanks, cu andreas
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