Bug#303130: Re: Bug#303130: exim4-daemon-heavy: exim4 "forgets" emails in /var/spool/exim4/scan, leaving emails undelivered without notice

Marc Haber Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>, 303130@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 1 May 2005 12:37:08 +0200


tags #303130 upstream
forwarded #303130 http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-dev/2005-May/msg00001.html
thanks

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:38:09PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> What I have observed is that when the exiscan patch blows chunks, a copy
> is saved in the scan/ directory.  However, this is not a lost email - it
> it an incoming email that failed to make it past one of the scanners,
> and has never been 2xx accepted for delivery after that DATA phase.  It
> would of course be ideal if the exiscan patch cleaned up completely, but
> it is usually an external scanner blowup at the root of it, so I have
> never reported it against exiscan.

I have forwarded this issue to exim-dev to find out whether current
exiscan properly cleans up.

Greetings
Marc

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