I am using exim 3.32, Debian testing. I have been using exim (together with fetchmail) with no problems for 6 months or so. As of a few days ago, I am no longer able to send mail from my machine (mostly single user, dial-up connection). For every message I try to send out, the exim log shows first that the "Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)" and then that the connection to the remote mailhost is timed out.
I do not know what I have done to cause this problem, I haven't adjusted any of the configuration files. I can't find which "Spool" is locked, or which "process" is handling the message - the "ps" command shows no process handling the message, and to my knowledge I haven't adjusted the permissions on any files. This happens no matter which if the three accounts on the system tries to send outgoing mail. One user reads mail with Postilion which uses /var/mail/user as the mailbox and that file is now 14MB, but incoming mail is handled normally. I can transfer mail between users on the system. I don't know how to diagnose or solve this problem - help needed and much appreciated. Following are bits from the exim log, showing first successful internal mail transfer, then an empty queue, then the queue getting locked. .....successful internal transfer.... 2002-04-30 21:43:14 172j9G-0000SI-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=tomasz P=local S=447\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-04-30 21:43:14 172j9G-0000SI-00 => tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=localuser T=\ local_delivery 2002-04-30 21:43:14 172j9G-0000SI-00 Completed .....empty queue..... 2002-04-30 21:53:02 Start queue run: pid=289 2002-04-30 21:53:02 End queue run: pid=289 2002-04-30 22:03:15 Start queue run: pid=390 -qf 2002-04-30 22:03:15 End queue run: pid=390 -qf ....beginning of blocked queue.... 2002-04-30 22:05:36 172jUu-00006Z-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=tomasz P=local S=440\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-04-30 22:08:01 Start queue run: pid=431 2002-04-30 22:08:01 172jUu-00006Z-00 Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2002-04-30 22:08:01 End queue run: pid=431 2002-04-30 22:10:37 172jUu-00006Z-00 mailhost.panix.com [166.84.1.73]: Connection timed out 2002-04-30 22:15:37 172jUu-00006Z-00 mailhost.panix.com [166.84.1.74]: Connection timed out 2002-04-30 22:20:37 172jUu-00006Z-00 mailhost.panix.com [166.84.1.72]: Connection timed out Thank you -- Tomasz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
