Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Here's a question that has always been bugging me. Ever since we moved from smail to exim many years ago at my isp, exim never seems to discard messages in the input queue. Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Maarten Vink wrote: Does the output of the "mailq" command provide any useful information about these messages? My first guess would be that you're dealing with "frozen" messages Yup. A lot of them are frozen. If that is the case, have a look at the "timeout_frozen_after" setting; this will au

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Craig Sanders wrote: i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you: exim doesn't scale. if you want performance, switch to postfix. Yeah... well... I've already moved every other machine I deal with over to Courier. I like it because it's one-stop-shopping for all of

Exim: Different mail retry times depending upon response from remote host...

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that the following remote mailer messages give varying degrees of optimism regarding future delivery: 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable 452 Mailbox full 452 Insufficient disk space; try again later 421 Too many conc

Re: Exim: Different mail retry times depending upon response from remote host...

2004-01-29 Thread Joe Emenaker
Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:23:50PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: Unfortunately, I haven't seen anything in Exim that lets you customize it's retry behavior based upon this. It does offer an "error" field in the retry section, but it's only for some

Re: Setting up hosting server

2004-01-29 Thread Joe Emenaker
Tommy Moore wrote: but what will I use for hosting the e-mail accounts? Also what are my options for a web based interface to these e-mail accounts as well as a control pannel for my users to create e-mail addresses for their domains? Well, Courier lets you have "true" virtual accounts. By that

Stopping Exim from sending "Message frozen" messages...

2004-01-30 Thread Joe Emenaker
Okay since I had a 3-year-old Exim configuration file, I decided to take a brand-new one and then use "diff" to find what I needed to move over. Hopefully now, it is rejecting bad recipients at SMTP time. However, it's also sending me "Message frozen" messages every time it freezes somethin

Re: [courier-users] FW: amavis

2004-01-30 Thread Joe Emenaker
Kóczán Péter wrote: I have a problem regarding to amavis. I've configured it for courier and the config file is ok, however amavis does not run, when i execute amavis, it gives the following error: AMAVIS: Couldn't init AMAVIS::MTA::Courier: Invalid argument at /usr/share/perl/AMAVIS.pm line 235,

Solving "Address already in use"

2004-02-06 Thread Joe Emenaker
Here's a wierd one. Our SpamAssassin daemon crashed and, when I tried to restart it, I got: Could not create INET socket: Address already in use IO::Socket::INET: Address already in use ... and I can't find any running spamd, so it looks like it's a stuck socket. I haven't seen one of these

Re: Solving "Address already in use"

2004-02-09 Thread Joe Emenaker
Michael Wood wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:34:04PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: Is there a better way, these days? Can I forcibly "un-use" the port? If not, can I, at the least, find out what process ID's the kernel thinks have it open? It will time out after a while.

Re: Starting isp and going to use Debian

2004-02-22 Thread Joe Emenaker
Nicolas Rueff wrote: Anyway, my question is what software do most of you use? Obviously, we have decided to use Debian for our base os. However, what do most of you use for: 1. Webmail Imp. Works well. Really. I've had a lot of headaches with Imp. Imp relies on Horde being correctly set

How to connect Apache2 to Tomcat4?

2004-03-01 Thread Joe Emenaker
Is anyone else using Apache2 with Tomcat4? I've been trying to find an appropriate connector to use between them. I've found references on Google to things like libapache2-mod-jk2, libapache2-mod-webapp, or libapache2-mod-jk, but I haven't been able to find any of them in stable or unstable...

Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Here's a question that has always been bugging me. Ever since we moved from smail to exim many years ago at my isp, exim never seems to discard messages in the input queue. Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is w

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Maarten Vink wrote: Does the output of the "mailq" command provide any useful information about these messages? My first guess would be that you're dealing with "frozen" messages Yup. A lot of them are frozen. If that is the case, have a look at the "timeout_frozen_after" setting; this will auto

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Craig Sanders wrote: i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you: exim doesn't scale. if you want performance, switch to postfix. Yeah... well... I've already moved every other machine I deal with over to Courier. I like it because it's one-stop-shopping for all of my

Exim: Different mail retry times depending upon response from remote host...

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that the following remote mailer messages give varying degrees of optimism regarding future delivery: 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable 452 Mailbox full 452 Insufficient disk space; try again later 421 Too many conc

Re: Exim: Different mail retry times depending upon response from remote host...

2004-01-29 Thread Joe Emenaker
Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:23:50PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: Unfortunately, I haven't seen anything in Exim that lets you customize it's retry behavior based upon this. It does offer an "error" field in the retry section, but it's only for some

Re: Setting up hosting server

2004-01-29 Thread Joe Emenaker
Tommy Moore wrote: but what will I use for hosting the e-mail accounts? Also what are my options for a web based interface to these e-mail accounts as well as a control pannel for my users to create e-mail addresses for their domains? Well, Courier lets you have "true" virtual accounts. By that,

Stopping Exim from sending "Message frozen" messages...

2004-01-30 Thread Joe Emenaker
Okay since I had a 3-year-old Exim configuration file, I decided to take a brand-new one and then use "diff" to find what I needed to move over. Hopefully now, it is rejecting bad recipients at SMTP time. However, it's also sending me "Message frozen" messages every time it freezes somethin

Re: [courier-users] FW: amavis

2004-01-30 Thread Joe Emenaker
Kóczán Péter wrote: I have a problem regarding to amavis. I've configured it for courier and the config file is ok, however amavis does not run, when i execute amavis, it gives the following error: AMAVIS: Couldn't init AMAVIS::MTA::Courier: Invalid argument at /usr/share/perl/AMAVIS.pm line 235,

Solving "Address already in use"

2004-02-06 Thread Joe Emenaker
Here's a wierd one. Our SpamAssassin daemon crashed and, when I tried to restart it, I got: Could not create INET socket: Address already in use IO::Socket::INET: Address already in use ... and I can't find any running spamd, so it looks like it's a stuck socket. I haven't seen one of these fo

Re: Solving "Address already in use"

2004-02-09 Thread Joe Emenaker
Michael Wood wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:34:04PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: Is there a better way, these days? Can I forcibly "un-use" the port? If not, can I, at the least, find out what process ID's the kernel thinks have it open? It will time out after a while.

How to connect Apache2 to Tomcat4?

2004-03-01 Thread Joe Emenaker
Is anyone else using Apache2 with Tomcat4? I've been trying to find an appropriate connector to use between them. I've found references on Google to things like libapache2-mod-jk2, libapache2-mod-webapp, or libapache2-mod-jk, but I haven't been able to find any of them in stable or unstable... a