Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
This one also produces /dev/random entropy from the sound card: http://code.google.com/p/snd-egd/ Plug an old FM tuner, without aerial connected, to the sound card for a useful source of noise ;-) Mike On 13/04/2012 08:11, Mark Elkins wrote: One more - which appears to work for me in generating DNSSEC signatures just fills up /dev/random (and I've no idea if this will help?) Install the 'haveged' package, www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor Software that reads random stuff from your CPU. Not as good as real Hardware Entropy devices but its free. There is also a handful of USB 'stick/memory' looking devices that one can purchase. On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 08:35 +0200, Martin Schuster (IFKL IT OS DS CD) wrote: On 2012-04-12 16:52, Yan Seiner wrote: [...] Not sure what I can do to help the entropy issue. It may just be that I've had a huge rsync job running for days and if it's using the same pool it could be draining all the entropy faster than the system can generate it. I don't know enough about how entropy works to make more than guesses from googling Phil already made some good suggestions, some additional ideas: If you don't care about the quality of the RNG, you could just inject data from /dev/urandom into your entropy-pool: rngd -r /dev/urandom If you need a cheap, good solution: http://robseward.com/misc/RNG2/ In case your server isn't locked away in a datacenter, you might also want to try video/audio entropy sources, http://www.vanheusden.com/ved/ http://www.vanheusden.com/aed/ hth, cheers, -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
On 2012-04-12 16:52, Yan Seiner wrote: [...] Not sure what I can do to help the entropy issue. It may just be that I've had a huge rsync job running for days and if it's using the same pool it could be draining all the entropy faster than the system can generate it. I don't know enough about how entropy works to make more than guesses from googling Phil already made some good suggestions, some additional ideas: If you don't care about the quality of the RNG, you could just inject data from /dev/urandom into your entropy-pool: rngd -r /dev/urandom If you need a cheap, good solution: http://robseward.com/misc/RNG2/ In case your server isn't locked away in a datacenter, you might also want to try video/audio entropy sources, http://www.vanheusden.com/ved/ http://www.vanheusden.com/aed/ hth, cheers, -- Infineon Technologies IT-Services GmbH martin.schust...@infineon.com Lakeside B05, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria Martin Schuster FB: LG Klagenfurt, FN 246787y +43 5 1777 3517 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
One more - which appears to work for me in generating DNSSEC signatures just fills up /dev/random (and I've no idea if this will help?) Install the 'haveged' package, www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor Software that reads random stuff from your CPU. Not as good as real Hardware Entropy devices but its free. There is also a handful of USB 'stick/memory' looking devices that one can purchase. On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 08:35 +0200, Martin Schuster (IFKL IT OS DS CD) wrote: On 2012-04-12 16:52, Yan Seiner wrote: [...] Not sure what I can do to help the entropy issue. It may just be that I've had a huge rsync job running for days and if it's using the same pool it could be draining all the entropy faster than the system can generate it. I don't know enough about how entropy works to make more than guesses from googling Phil already made some good suggestions, some additional ideas: If you don't care about the quality of the RNG, you could just inject data from /dev/urandom into your entropy-pool: rngd -r /dev/urandom If you need a cheap, good solution: http://robseward.com/misc/RNG2/ In case your server isn't locked away in a datacenter, you might also want to try video/audio entropy sources, http://www.vanheusden.com/ved/ http://www.vanheusden.com/aed/ hth, cheers, -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ -- . . ___. .__ Posix Systems - (South) Africa /| /| / /__ m...@posix.co.za - Mark J Elkins, Cisco CCIE / |/ |ARK \_/ /__ LKINS Tel: +27 12 807 0590 Cell: +27 82 601 0496 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
Yan Seiner y...@seiner.com (Do 12 Apr 2012 16:52:08 CEST): Seems to be a TLS entropy issue? (I'm guessing here but from reading what I've been able to it looks similar.) Yesterday the messages were persisting for hours, and there was upwards of 100 stalled at a time. Not sure what I can do to help the entropy issue. It may just be that I've had a huge rsync job running for days and if it's using the same pool it could be draining all the entropy faster than the system can generate it. I don't know enough about how entropy works to make more than guesses from googling If it is entropy related, you might see the processes hanging during read from /dev/random (use strace -p to check this) For short term checks you could link /dev/random to /dev/urandom (or use mknod to create a /dev/random with the same major/minor as /dev/urandom). But on Linux /dev/ is a RAM disk maintained by udev and partly filled at system startup. On Linux we solved the entropy issue using the rng-tools package and put there /dev/urandom as source for additional entropy. -- Heiko signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
On 2012-04-13 at 11:20 +0200, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: On Linux we solved the entropy issue using the rng-tools package and put there /dev/urandom as source for additional entropy. That's not really solving the problem. That's fooling the system into thinking there's more entropy than there really is, degrading the quality and making your pseudo-random numbers more predictable. This hurts the security of your TLS connections. -Phil -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
Martin Schuster (IFKL IT OS DS CD) martin.schust...@infineon.com wrote: On 2012-04-12 16:52, Yan Seiner wrote: Phil already made some good suggestions, some additional ideas: If you don't care about the quality of the RNG, you could just inject data from /dev/urandom into your entropy-pool: rngd -r /dev/urandom Hmm. I don't think this is very wise. I recommend using haveged: http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/ For virtual machines is most times the only way to add entropy. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
On Fri, April 13, 2012 1:09 am, Sven Hartge wrote: I recommend using haveged: http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/ I installed this and the problem has not reappeared. Hopefully that should fix it. -- On two occasions I have been asked,—Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out? ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. —Charles Babbage, Inventor of the computer, 1864 -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
On Wed, April 11, 2012 10:39 pm, Phil Pennock wrote: On 2012-04-11 at 13:26 -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: 2012-04-11 13:22:16 1SI3wt-0006jb-DK Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) Run exiwhat, it will tell you which Exim processes exist, what they're currently doing, etc. Usually this message just means that there's a slow remote host, an Exim from another queue runner is already trying to deliver the mail, and so this queue-runner is skipping that message and going onto the next one in the queue. As such, it's harmless. As long as that is what's happening. A diagnostic log message like this just says I'm not handling it myself, because ..., not there's a problem to be fixed. Now, if it persists on the same message for a while, you might look into what's happening with that particular message. Perhaps the recipient system is doing something icky, such as passing your connections to a tarpit system. Seems to be a TLS entropy issue? (I'm guessing here but from reading what I've been able to it looks similar.) Yesterday the messages were persisting for hours, and there was upwards of 100 stalled at a time. Not sure what I can do to help the entropy issue. It may just be that I've had a huge rsync job running for days and if it's using the same pool it could be draining all the entropy faster than the system can generate it. I don't know enough about how entropy works to make more than guesses from googling -- On two occasions I have been asked,—Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out? ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. —Charles Babbage, Inventor of the computer, 1864 -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
On 2012-04-12 at 07:52 -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: Seems to be a TLS entropy issue? (I'm guessing here but from reading what I've been able to it looks similar.) Yesterday the messages were persisting for hours, and there was upwards of 100 stalled at a time. Not sure what I can do to help the entropy issue. It may just be that I've had a huge rsync job running for days and if it's using the same pool it could be draining all the entropy faster than the system can generate it. I don't know enough about how entropy works to make more than guesses from googling Options: * don't use TLS for talking to so many hosts; * send less email; * use a different TLS provider; eg, see if building Exim against OpenSSL fixes issues encountered by GnuTLS, or vice versa; * generate more entropy on the system. To generate more entropy on the system, and have it be real entropy, you need to inject something used to feed the system entropy pool. Almost anything you do here from outside will be unreliable. Your best option for entropy increase (besides checking OS release notes to see if an upgrade will help) is a hardware change. You can add an entropy-generation source (PCI card, typically as part of an encryption off-load system; Soekris have some decent affordable cards here) and there are some more listed at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hardware_random_number_generators Soekris: http://soekris.com/products/vpn14x1.html (although I'm not sure of the Linux support there). Alternatively, some modern CPUs provide hardware entropy sources; for Intel, that's still coming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand while VIA x86 CPUs have had it for a long time: http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/padlock/hardware.jsp and TPM chips also often have hardware entropy generators. These might help: https://lwn.net/Articles/283103/ Appropriate sources of entropy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_%28computing%29 -Phil -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
[exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
I just started getting this message. Seems that many emails (but not all) are getting hung up. 2012-04-11 13:22:16 1SI3wt-0006jb-DK Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) I have no idea why this started happening; I've checked all the usual suspects and I have plenty of spool space, the cpu is showing idle time, and the load on the server is minimal. And yet mail is getting hung up. I've googled all over the place and there doesn't seem to be a single reason for this. What does this mean? And more importantly how do I fix it? selene:/var/log/exim4# ps auxwww | grep exim mail 25292 0.0 0.0 86128 1948 ?S13:13 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q mail 25294 0.0 0.0 86128 1696 ?S13:13 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q 100 25737 0.0 0.0 85772 2100 ?Ss 13:13 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m root 25741 0.0 0.1 85760 4220 ?S13:13 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q root 25744 0.0 0.0 86128 3644 ?S13:13 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q mail 25746 0.0 0.0 86128 1948 ?S13:13 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q mail 25748 0.0 0.0 86128 1696 ?S13:13 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -q root 25894 0.0 0.1 86092 5332 ?S13:15 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1SI3wt-0006jb-DK mail 25895 0.0 0.0 86092 1992 ?S13:15 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1SI3wt-0006jb-DK mail 25898 0.0 0.0 86092 1652 ?S13:15 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1SI3wt-0006jb-DK root 25990 0.0 0.1 86092 5336 ?S13:16 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1SI3yA-0006l8-Ky mail 25995 0.0 0.0 86092 1996 ?S13:16 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1SI3yA-0006l8-Ky mail 25997 0.0 0.0 86092 1656 ?S13:16 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1SI3yA-0006l8-Ky root 26232 0.0 0.1 86092 5332 ?Ss 13:16 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -odi -Mc 1SI3yI-0006p5-GG mail 26233 0.0 0.0 86092 1988 ?S13:16 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -odi -Mc 1SI3yI-0006p5-GG mail 26235 0.0 0.0 86092 1656 ?S13:16 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -odi -Mc 1SI3yI-0006p5-GG root 26334 0.0 0.1 86092 5332 ?S13:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1SI3zI-0006qX-Pp mail 26339 0.0 0.0 86092 1992 ?S13:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1SI3zI-0006qX-Pp mail 26341 0.0 0.0 86092 1652 ?S13:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1SI3zI-0006qX-Pp root 27696 0.0 0.0 8292 880 pts/12 S+ 13:24 0:00 grep exim -- On two occasions I have been asked,—Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out? ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. —Charles Babbage, Inventor of the computer, 1864 -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
On 2012-04-11 at 13:26 -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: 2012-04-11 13:22:16 1SI3wt-0006jb-DK Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) Run exiwhat, it will tell you which Exim processes exist, what they're currently doing, etc. Usually this message just means that there's a slow remote host, an Exim from another queue runner is already trying to deliver the mail, and so this queue-runner is skipping that message and going onto the next one in the queue. As such, it's harmless. As long as that is what's happening. A diagnostic log message like this just says I'm not handling it myself, because ..., not there's a problem to be fixed. Now, if it persists on the same message for a while, you might look into what's happening with that particular message. Perhaps the recipient system is doing something icky, such as passing your connections to a tarpit system. -Phil -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
Marc Sherman wrote:
Here you're definitely obfuscating.
OK, sorry, I really should have read your netiquette... so here is is once
again, I obfuscated the
LHS of the mail addresses (xxx), I guess that's ok because I and my brother do
not want to get
spammed ;-) (it's my brothers mail address I cannot send mails to)
www:~# exiwhat | grep 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw
16805 running queue: waiting for 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw (16965)
16965 delivering 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw: waiting for a remote delivery subprocess to
finish
17379 delivering 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw to wilsky.de [82.96.75.212] ([EMAIL
PROTECTED])
www:~# exigrep 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw /var/log/exim4/mainlog*
2005-09-28 18:07:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
H=dsl-084-060-040-005.arcor-ip.net
([192.168.1.75]) [84.60.40.5] P=esmtpa A=cram_md5_server:xxx S=609 [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
2005-09-28 18:34:57 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-28 18:34:57 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-28 19:04:57 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-28 19:34:57 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-28 19:55:59 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-28 20:00:12 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-28 20:26:00 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-28 20:55:59 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-28 21:25:59 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-28 21:55:59 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-28 22:25:59 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-28 23:09:29 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
... continues this way...
when the log wraps from mainlog.1 to mainlog there is this line:
+++ 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw not completed +++
the it continues:
2005-09-30 02:25:51 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-30 02:55:50 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-30 03:25:51 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-30 03:55:50 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-30 04:25:51 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-30 04:55:51 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-30 05:25:50 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
2005-09-30 05:55:50 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is
handling this message)
and so on...
www:~# mailq
40h 609 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www:~# hostname
www.koetter.cc
www:~# exim4 -bt -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exim version 4.50 uid=0 gid=0 pid=24161 D=fbb95cfd
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December 3, 2003)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl GnuTLS 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
changed uid/gid: forcing real = effective
uid=0 gid=0 pid=24161
auxiliary group list: none
configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
log selectors = 0ffc 00020800
trusted user
admin user
user name root extracted from gecos field root
originator: uid=0 gid=0 login=root name=root
sender address = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Address testing: uid=0 gid=102 euid=0 egid=102
Testing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Considering [EMAIL PROTECTED]
routing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hubbed_hosts router
local_part=xxx domain=wilsky.de
checking domains
expansion of ${if
exists{/etc/exim4/hubbed_hosts}{partial-lsearch;/etc/exim4/hubbed_hosts}fail}
forced failure: assume not in this list
hubbed_hosts router skipped: domains mismatch
dnslookup_relay_to_domains router
local_part=xxx domain=wilsky.de
checking domains
wilsky.de in @:localhost:koetter.cc? no (end of list)
wilsky.de in ? no (end of list)
wilsky.de in ! +local_domains : +relay_to_domains? no (end of list)
dnslookup_relay_to_domains router skipped: domains mismatch
dnslookup router
local_part=xxx domain=wilsky.de
checking domains
cached no match for +local_domains
cached lookup data = NULL
wilsky.de in ! +local_domains? yes (end of list)
R: dnslookup for [EMAIL
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:53:04 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Kötter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any other info that could be of any use? What does cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail say? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:53:31 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Kötter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Haber schrieb: On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:53:04 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Kötter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any other info that could be of any use? What does cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail say? OK, now my linux knowledge ends ;-) what does that mean? www:~# cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 0 www:~# It says 0 :-( I guess that is not good? It's good in a way that we now know what is going on on your system, but bad in a way that there is no easy way to fix it. To establish a cryptographically protected connection, exim (or GnuTLS in the case of Debian's exim packges) need a certain quantity of random numbers which it tries to pull from Linux' entropy pool. On your system, that entropy pool is empty, so exim waits until enough random has been found. You need to investigate which sources of random numbers are available on your system. If you're lucky, your machine has a hardware random number generator, so all you need to do is install the rng-tools. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
Marc Haber schrieb: It says 0 :-( I guess that is not good? It's good in a way that we now know what is going on on your system, but bad in a way that there is no easy way to fix it. To establish a cryptographically protected connection, exim (or GnuTLS in the case of Debian's exim packges) need a certain quantity of random numbers which it tries to pull from Linux' entropy pool. On your system, that entropy pool is empty, so exim waits until enough random has been found. You need to investigate which sources of random numbers are available on your system. If you're lucky, your machine has a hardware random number generator, so all you need to do is install the rng-tools. OK, from what I understand exim trys to encrypt that message or something from that communication to the destination server? But why do all other outgoing mail addresses work? Is there a way to tell exim not to encrypt anything? Oliver -- Oliver Kötter -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Oliver Kötter wrote:
Is there a way to tell exim not to encrypt anything?
hosts_avoid_tls = *
Tony.
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Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
Marc Sherman wrote am 30.09.2005 15:45, Uhr:
Oliver Kötter wrote:
OK, from what I understand exim trys to encrypt that message or
something from that communication to the destination server? But why
do all other outgoing mail addresses work? Is there a way to tell
exim not to encrypt anything?
Tony already gave you the answer for how to avoid outgoing TLS, but
that's a bandaid -- you should probably fix your entropy problem, or
you'll have trouble with anything else you use TLS for on this
computer, including encryption for incomming authenticated SMTP (for
which disabling TLS would be a big mistake).
OK, wrote
remote_smtp:
debug_print = T: remote_smtp for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
driver = smtp
hosts_avoid_tls = *
to my /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport//30_exim4-config_remote_smtp,
did an update-exim4.conf, then an /etc/init.d/exim4 reload and
whupps... mail is going out, thanks a lot.
I disabled plain SMTP auth, I use cram_md5, I guess that works OK, does it?
conf.d/main/30_exim4-config_examples:
cram_md5_server:
driver = cram_md5
public_name = CRAM-MD5
server_secret =
${extract{2}{:}{${lookup{$1}lsearch{CONFDIR/passwd}{$value}fail}}}
server_set_id = $1
cram_md5:
driver = cram_md5
public_name = CRAM-MD5
client_name =
${extract{1}{:}{${lookup{$host}lsearch*{CONFDIR/passwd.client}{$value}fail}}}
client_secret =
${extract{2}{:}{${lookup{$host}lsearch*{CONFDIR/passwd.client}{$value}fail}}}
Everything else is on comment.
Thanks again!
Oliver
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[exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
Hi, I am relatively new to exim and have a big problem. I am using Exim 4.50 on Debian Sarge on my personal mail server which is a virtual server. It is the exim4-daemon-heavy package. Everything works fine for some months now, but since last week I am unable to send mails to one specific guy. When I type mailq I see these mails which do not get send. I am able to send mail to any other address I have tested. The mainlog says: 2005-09-29 02:09:29 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) which is of course repeated every 30 seconds. Does anybody have any idea what this may be? I cannot think which other process this could be. I use clamav and spamassassin which are scanning incoming messages but these are outgoing messages and any other receipient works. Thanks for any help, Oliver -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
Oliver Kötter wrote: The mainlog says: 2005-09-29 02:09:29 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) which is of course repeated every 30 seconds. Sorry, of course it is repeated every 30 _minutes_ Oliver -- Oliver Kötter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
Oliver Kötter wrote: The mainlog says: 2005-09-29 02:09:29 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) which is of course repeated every 30 seconds. Sorry, of course it is repeated every 30 _minutes_ Oliver -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
Marc Sherman schrieb: The mainlog says: 2005-09-29 02:09:29 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) That's not all the mainlog says. Use exigrep to find all the mainlog messages so we can see how the message got into this state in the first place: exigrep 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw /var/log/exim4/mainlog* Here's the output: +++ 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw not completed +++ 2005-09-29 02:09:29 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 02:39:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 03:09:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 03:39:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 04:09:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 04:39:31 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 05:09:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 05:39:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 06:09:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 06:39:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 07:09:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 07:39:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 08:09:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 08:39:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 09:09:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 09:39:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 10:09:36 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 10:39:36 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 11:09:36 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 11:39:37 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 12:09:36 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 12:39:36 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 15:25:51 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 15:55:51 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 16:25:50 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 16:55:50 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 17:25:50 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 17:55:50 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-28 18:07:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw = [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=dsl-084-060-040-005.arcor-ip.net ([192.168.1.75]) [84.60.40.5] P=esmtpa A=cram_md5_server:oliver S=609 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-09-28 18:34:57 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-28 19:04:57 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-28 19:34:57 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-28 19:55:59 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-28 20:00:12 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-28 20:26:00 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-28 20:55:59 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-28 21:25:59 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-28 21:55:59 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-28 22:25:59 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-28 23:09:29 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-28 23:39:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 00:09:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 00:39:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 01:09:28 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2005-09-29 01:39:28
Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
exigrep 1EKeSt-0001ZE-Sw /var/log/exim4/mainlog* ups, logs were mixed up in my previous mail, mainlog.1 was after mainlog, so please watch the time... -- Oliver Kötter -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
