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Mail stuck in queue.

I have a lot of mail stuck in my queue.
It's status is 'OK'

I try a manual force with :

chroot /var/chroot-smtp /bin/exim -qff

And it sends a few then seems to stop. The exim -qff command never completes. (I don't get command prompt returned to me).

I can't see any other errors, DNS lookups appear to be working. I am running ASL 3.211

Clues ?

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0 SveN_01 over 22 years ago

Hi,
stop the smtp proxy,
delete anything under:
/var/chroot-smtp/spool/input
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0 Simon Shaw over 22 years ago in reply to SveN_01

I have done that.

Mail comes in and just seems to sit there.
I have to keep forcing exim -qf to push the mail out. Some kind of cron problem ?
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0 Simon Shaw over 22 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

OK, I have manually set a queue process running for exim (exim -q1m)

Why wouldn't exim be starting with a queue process ?
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0 Simon Shaw over 22 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

I think I may have found the error.
In Webmin, under SMTP relay, if I stop and restart the relay option it restarts exim with:
exim -bd

Then the log reports:
exim[17090]: 2002-11-13 11:45:43 exim 6.66 daemon started: pid=17090, no queue runs, listening for SMTP on port 25

No queue runs is probably the issue ?
Shouldn't it start with:
exim -bd -q20m (for a 20 minute queue run) ??

Suggestions ?
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0 JimmyM over 22 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

Can someone please reply to Simons post.
1. How can we shorten the queue processing interval?
2. How do we get Exim to de-queue its messages without restarting? ATRN/ETRN?
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0 JimmyM over 22 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

Can someone please reply to Simons post.
1. How can we shorten the queue processing interval?
2. How do we get Exim to de-queue its messages without restarting? ATRN/ETRN?
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0 oliver.desch over 22 years ago in reply to JimmyM

Hello alltogether,

it may happen in the current version that some mails
are displayed in the queue but they are not really complete
anymore, this can happen if exim would be stopped from
our scripts (not so nice with kill -9, will be changed).

Every e-mail consists of a "-H" and a "-D" file,
header and data.
So, if you cd to /var/chroot-smtp/spool/input you'd
see that some entries have only one type of file left,
if you delete those orphan files the display would be
fine again!

Don't worry - no data will be lost!

read you
o|iver

[size="1"][ 14 November 2002, 14:31: Message edited by: oliver.desch ][/size]
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0 Simon Shaw over 22 years ago in reply to oliver.desch

This doesn't fix my problem with mail just sitting in the queue. Can you explain the "no queue runs" line in the log when ASL is restarted ?
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0 oliver.desch over 22 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

"no queue runs" indicates that exim doesn't have anything
to do - either because the e-mails didn't reach the resend
timer or the queue is empty. A queue run happens
every 20 minutes. You can see the timers in exim.conf.

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0 Simon Shaw over 22 years ago in reply to oliver.desch

I think I found the root cause of this.

My exiscan conf file had some string expressions it didn't like and so exiscan was failing to start. No exiscan=no queue pushing ?

Seems fixed now.
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