More observations on "Mailscanner stopped delivering to outgoing queue"

[Glenn Steen]

On 01/07/06, Mordur Ingolfsson <ms at 1984.is> wrote:
> Glenn Steen wrote:
> > On 01/07/06, Mordur Ingolfsson <ms at 1984.is> wrote:
> >> I apologize for not having been thorough enough in the first place, but
> >> I have been looking better into the problem described in my previous
> >> mail to this list under the subject ."Mailscanner stopped delivering to
> >> outgoing queue"  a few hours ago.
> >>
> >> Below is an excerpt from syslog. Everything is fine and messages get
> >> nicely processed and delivered, as the first five lines indicate.  Then,
> >> at 12:53:13, something happens and Debian-exim (the exim user and the
> >> username under which mailscanner operates) starts to complain about
> >> something (lines in syslog excerpt below marked with"--------->" ) . And
> >> the message gets scanned and rescanned.
> >>
> >> After this, nothing gets delivered. If you read further into the syslog
> >> excerpt you will see that this messages, and messages delivered to the
> >> host subsequently, do not get delivered. Messages are piling up on the
> >> incoming queue and MailScanner refuses to deliver. The child processes
> >> are zombies <defunct> and I simply cannot find a way arount this.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> Mordur
> >>
> > (snip)
> >> Jun 30 12:53:21 mx0 dccproc[25688]: socket(UDP): Address family not
> >> supported by protocol
> > (snip)
> >> --------->Jun 30 12:53:25 mx0 Debian-exim: Process did not exit cleanly,
> >> returned 28 with signal 0
> > (snip)
> >
> > I'm not sure the dcc error is the culprit, but... well, something
> > exits with an error, probably "agitating" exim... you should look into
> > that:)
> >
> The dcc error is not the culprit. I have solved that by setting ipv6 to
> off in dcc config and it changed nothing.

Good. Then... what changed between working/non-working? There's
nothing strange in the queue dir? Nothing simple like problem with fs?
No "huge" queue files?

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