Some mail getting lost between exim and MS

[Bill Sholar - WebGusto]

A problem perhaps related to MailScanner update... (I'm on the most recent
release, and on the stable exim release. Both have been running fine since
the MS update several days ago.)

I'd sure appreciate help with this, if anyone has ideas where to look!

A user (not root) cron job that sends output via email every 5 minutes
continues to run, but the mail started failing at 3:05 yesterday. (It LOOKs
like all the rest of the email is getting delivered, as far as I can tell.)

There was no human interaction happening on the server anywhere near that
time, fwiw, and nothing else happening then as far as I know.

It looks to my untrained eye that the cron email fails, then an error email
about that failure fails also.

Relevant log entry from exim_mainlog:

2004-05-12 03:15:01 1BNotJ-0007fA-6r <= [useraddress] U=[userid] P=local
S=884
2004-05-12 03:15:01 1BNotJ-0007fA-6r == cron at domain.com R=defer_router defer
(-1): All deliveries are handled by MailScanner
2004-05-12 03:15:01 1BNotJ-0007fA-6r ** cron at domain.com: retry timeout
exceeded
2004-05-12 03:15:01 1BNotJ-0007hN-Ey <= <> R=1BNotJ-0007fA-6r U=mailnull
P=local S=1752
2004-05-12 03:15:01 1BNotJ-0007hN-Ey == [useraddress] R=defer_router defer
(-1): All deliveries are handled by MailScanner
2004-05-12 03:15:01 1BNotJ-0007hN-Ey ** [useraddress]: retry timeout
exceeded
2004-05-12 03:15:01 1BNotJ-0007hN-Ey [useraddress]: error ignored
2004-05-12 03:15:01 1BNotJ-0007hN-Ey Completed
2004-05-12 03:15:01 1BNotJ-0007fA-6r Completed

This sequence repeats every time the cron job runs.

fwiw, these two messages never arrive in the mailbox, and there is NO entry
in the mailscanner log for these two messages, nor any others within a
couple of minutes on either side of the 3:15am time of the message.

Any suggestions?

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