email in exim incoming queue is not getting processed -- Please help

[Daniel Bird]

Scott,
I had a similar problem with exim and finding it's input and ouput queues.
For some reason my version (4.12, but also when I was using 3.x -
probably a configure option;-) decided if I told it to use

/var/spool/exim/input

it actually looked in /var/spool/exim/input/input
and likewise for /var/spool/exim/output (/var/spool/exim/output/input).
ie, always added 'input' to the dir structure

To get 'round this I have :

in exim.conf.out
spool_directory = /var/spool/exim/outgoing

and in MailScanner.conf
Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/exim/input
Outgoing Queue Dir = /var/spool/exim/outgoing/input

Works for me!

Regards
Dan

Hancock, Scott wrote:

>Greetings all,
>
>This is a restate of a previous help request.
>
>Exim incoming has written a pile of messages to
>/var/spool/exim/incoming/input.
>
>For some reason mailscanner is not acting on these messages.
>
>Any guidance on how to troubleshoot or information on under what
>conditions mailscanner would not find or accept these files would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Debian sarge
>Exim 3.36
>MS 4.13
>Sa 2.44
>
>All new incoming mails are scanned and delivered.
>
>exim -bp  shows the mail in the incoming directory without any errors.
>The queue originally had 1500 unscanned emails a Mainscanner restart
>delivered half of these but I still have about 700 waiting for deliver.
>
>I'll gladly post any conf files.
>
>Please help.
>
>Scott Hancock
>
>
>



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