Failed to link message body between queues

[Martin Hepworth]

Thomas

that's because you'v got probably not got the split queues setup in
mailscanner.conf.

what user is MS running as - first few lines of mailscanner.conf has a
user= line, This needs to be the same user as exim is running as.


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preissler thomas wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I recently installed on an actual Debian
>
> * Exim 4.32-2 and
> * Mailscanner 4.30.3-2
>
> I configured exim to run one as listener and the other one as
> queuerunner. Nearly it works.
>
> Fetchmail fetches my mails, and exim stores it in its incoming queue.
> After mailscanner has checked that mail, it never appears in the
> outgoing queue:
>
>   Jul 28 12:05:18 mailhost MailScanner[5958]: Failed to link message body between queues (/var/spool/exim4.out/input/1/1Bnts1-0004h2-2P-D --> /var/spool/exim4.in/input/1Bnts1-0004h2-2P-D)
>   Jul 28 12:05:18 mailhost MailScanner[5958]: Could not open file >/var/spool/exim4.out/input/1/1Bnts1-0004h2-2P-T: No such file or directory
>   Jul 28 12:05:18 mailhost MailScanner[5958]: Cannot create + lock clean tempfile /var/spool/exim4.out/input/1/1Bnts1-0004h2-2P-T,
>   Jul 28 12:05:18 mailhost Debian-exim: Process did not exit cleanly, returned 126 with signal 0
>   Jul 28 12:05:18 mailhost MailScanner[6020]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.30.3 starting...
>
> The most curious thing is, why wants MailScanner store its mails in
> subdirectories of the outgoing queue, and not directly without a
> directory. When I create that directory (as above: "1") with the right
> permissions, everything works fine for one mail. But restarting Exim and
> MailScanner deletes that shortly created directories.
>
> I do not understand, whether this is a Mailscanner or an Exim issue. So
> please, don't be rude... I did not found this problem in combination
> with Exim... so I posted it here.
>
> It would be great if someone can help me out. Thanks ;-))
>
>
> TIA,
> Tom
>
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