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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=972 --- Comment #3 from Gavin McQuillan <[email protected]> 2010-04-15 18:01:36 --- (In reply to comment #0) > My pager isn't receiving email-based pages because of this issue. Often, the > there will be a single page, and then subsequent pages don't get sent. This is > a serious problem for us. > > I haven't seen anything that might be related except for similar error > warnings > about permissions issues. I don't think this is a permissions problem as mail > delivery works most of the time. > > > We run this on an Ubuntu Jaunty server with exim v. 4.69 > > This is from the mainlog in /var/log/exim: > > 2010-04-03 15:02:40 1Ny4rw-0005Ti-W3 <= [email protected] H=localhost (admin1) > [127.0.0.1] P=smtp S=755 id=1270306...@admin1 > > 2010-04-03 15:02:41 1Ny4rw-0005Ti-W3 Failed to create spool file > /var/spool/exim4/input//1Ny4rw-0005Ti-W3-D: File exists > > 2010-04-03 15:02:41 1Ny4rw-0005Ti-W3 => [email protected] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp > H=ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com [74.125.113.27] > 2010-04-03 15:02:41 1Ny4rw-0005Ti-W3 Completed > 2010-04-03 15:03:10 1Ny4sQ-0005UZ-S7 <= [email protected] H=localhost (admin1) > [127.0.0.1] P=smtp S=740 id=1270306...@admin1 > > 2010-04-03 15:03:10 1Ny4sQ-0005UZ-S7 Failed to create spool file > /var/spool/exim4/input//1Ny4sQ-0005UZ-S7-D: File exists > > 2010-04-03 15:03:10 1Ny4sQ-0005UZ-S7 => [email protected] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp > H=ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com [74.125.113.27] > 2010-04-03 15:03:10 1Ny4sQ-0005UZ-S7 Completed > > There is also an accompanying paniclog which reiterates the failure to create > spool files because the file exists. > > > Thanks in advance, > -Gavin > I can confirm that my workaround works for my pager. Making sure that its address is first in any set of email transactions allows it to be sent without a problem. However, any email destined for Google's servers seems to run into this problem occasionally. In my experience this is particularly the case with monit. I suppose the next steps would be to try this same setup with a different MTA and see what happens. If we see similar behavior, it may be the way monit crafts emails causes Google's servers to have a bad reaction -- which somehow leads to duplicate spool files. It's definitely a bit of a stretch. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.exim.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
