Sadly, for the last three days, although swen is starting to abate, I have encountered a new email malady ;<
# sudo exim -bV
Exim version 3.36 #1 built 26-Aug-2003 22:39:06
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[1] Generally, I receive between 2,000 and 3,000 emails per day, and
prior to this new problem, have *not* had any exim queue problems.
[2] Now that this problem has begun, I notice -- often, but not always
-- that `exim -bp' shows several dozens of queued messages. While I
have been querying, only one has shown as frozen.
[3] I am finding several messages in rejectlog, with this message:
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
pipe delivery process timed out
[4] Although, some of these are swen, or spam related, the majority of
these messages are not. In fact, I have several automated remote
monitoring messages that have come to me regularly for years, that now
-- sometimes -- end up going through this bounce nightmare, and do not
get to me other than as:
failure notice
Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
Unfortunately, anything below exim 4 appears to the user community as
antiquated, and nothing helpful is forthcoming. Also, I find myself up
to my eyeballs in customer problems, so I have little available time
right now to tinker with this, even if I knew what I was doing ;>
What can cause this problem?
More importantly, what can I do about this?
What do you think?
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Best Regards,
mds
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877.596.8237
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