Messages Stuck in the system...

[Martin Hepworth]

you need two exim queues and MailScanner pickup from 1st queue processes
and drop clean email into the 2nd.

http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:mta:exim:installation

so MailScanner is the glue if you like between two MTA queues, the 2nd does
the local delivery in your case to the MS-Exchange system

-- 
Martin Hepworth, CISSP
Oxford, UK


On 11 June 2013 17:20, Ritchie P. Fraser <rpf at marinesoftware.co.uk> wrote:

>  Hi,****
>
> I have a CentOS 6.4 box with exim 4.80.1-1 / MailScanner 4.84.5-3 / ****
>
> Baruwa 2.0/ clamav 0.97.8-1 / spamassassin 3.3.1-2.****
>
> Set up like this...****
>
> ** **
>
>               CentOS 6.4
> Windows SBS****
>
> Internet ---> THELMA (Wash eMail) ---> LOUISE****
>
>
> exim/mailscanner/                           MS Exchange Server****
>
>                                                   clam/spamassassin****
>
> ** **
>
> My simplistic understanding of the way this process works is...****
>
>                                                   ****
>
> 1 - Internet****
>
>       |****
>
> 2 - exim(1) --- incoming mail placed in /var/spool/exim.in/input****
>
>       | ****
>
> 3 - MailScanner  --- should pick up mail and manage scanning
> clam/spamassassin****
>
>       | ****
>
> 4 - MailScanner  --- Clean eMail should be placed in /var/spool/exim/input
> ****
>
>       |****
>
> 5 - exim(2) --- picks up washed mail and delivers to smarthost LOUISE****
>
>       | ****
>
> 6 - MS Exchange --- delivers mail to end users****
>
>       |****
>
> 7 - End Users ****
>
> ** **
>
> I have telnet'ed onto the box and created some mail messages. They all
> seem ****
>
> to be stuck in the /var/spool/exim.in/input directory Between steps 2 and
> 3 above.****
>
> ** **
>
> If I try to purge / delete / expunge the mail from the queue with****
>
> ** **
>
> "exim -qff" ****
>
> ** **
>
> yields the following in the ****
>
> ** **
>
> 2013-06-11 16:49:18 Start queue run: pid=11415 -qff****
>
> 2013-06-11 16:48:38 1UmMnb-0001VC-AU Spool file is locked (another process
> is handling this message)****
>
> ...****
>
> 2013-06-11 16:48:38 1UmN0o-0001br-Cl Spool file is locked (another process
> is handling this message)****
>
> 2013-06-11 16:48:38 End queue run: pid=11274 -qff****
>
> ** **
>
> How do I find out what process is stuck?****
>
> ** **
>
> Kind Regards,****
>
> *Ritchie Fraser*
>
> Systems Administrator****
>
> ** **
>
> T : +44 (0) 1304 840506****
>
> F : +44 (0) 1304 840075****
>
> W : http://www.marinesoftware.co.uk****
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>
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