Bug#407957: exim4: move_frozen_messages sometimes fails

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Package: exim4
Version: 4.63-10
Severity: normal


On a mailsystem with ~50k mails per day and the option move_frozen_messages
enabled I get 3-5 paniclog lines aday about messages which couldn't be moved
to the frozen directory.

2007-01-11 09:36:35 1H4vQJ-0004Kg-9S <= <> R=1H4vPp-00045G-6j U=Debian-exim P=local S=11848
2007-01-11 09:36:36 1H4vQJ-0004Kg-9S lowest numbered MX record points to local host: barak.net
2007-01-11 09:36:36 1H4vQJ-0004Kg-9S == weidong52715 at barak.net R=dnslookup_relay_to_domains defer (-1): lowest numbered MX record points to local host
2007-01-11 09:36:36 1H4vQJ-0004Kg-9S ** weidong52715 at barak.net: retry timeout exceeded
2007-01-11 09:36:36 1H4vQJ-0004Kg-9S weidong52715 at barak.net: error ignored
2007-01-11 09:36:36 1H4vQJ-0004Kg-9S Completed QT=1s
2007-01-11 09:36:36 1H4vQJ-0004Kg-9S link("/var/spool/exim4/input//1H4vQJ-0004Kg-9S-D","/var/spool/exim4/Finput//1H4vQJ-0004Kg-9S-D") failed while moving message: No such file or directory

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.63 #1 built 05-Nov-2006 10:41:09
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September  6, 2005)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl GnuTLS move_frozen_messages Content_Scanning Old_Demime
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql
Authenticators: cram_md5 cyrus_sasl plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to replace
# the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF strings in the configuration template files.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet'
dc_other_hostnames='localhost.localdomain:localhost:mailrelay-base:mailrelay-base.nethinks.com'
dc_local_interfaces='0.0.0.0'
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_smarthost=''
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='true'
dc_hide_mailname=''
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_visiblename='mailrelay.nethinks.com'
dc_local_domains='' # see conf.d/main/000_localmacrosdc_localdelivery=''
mailname:mailrelay.nethinks.com

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.1
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.8      Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-base                    4.63-10    support files for all exim MTA (v4
ii  exim4-daemon-heavy            4.63-10    exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended

exim4 recommends no packages.

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