Exim+MailScanner - not always queuing mail on "in" side

[Tony Finch]

=?iso-8859-1?q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=              <moffelist at AMAGERKOLLEGIET.DK> wrote:
>
>As per the mailscanner instructions, I have=20
>"exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim_incoming retry >/dev/null" in
>cron.daily. Running these jobs manually make the files appear. Can
>they safely be omitted from cron.daily? They do not seem to make any
>sense to me, as there should be no database in the incoming queue to
>tidy up...

Yes. I think I left that in my revised Exim installation guide for
reasons of safety, but experience seems to have shown that it hides
a problem...

Tony.
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