Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2012-04-15 Thread Michael J. Tubby B.Sc G8TIC
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

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2012-04-13 Thread Martin Schuster (IFKL IT OS DS CD)
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

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2012-04-13 Thread Mark Elkins
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

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2012-04-13 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
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

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2012-04-13 Thread Phil Pennock
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

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2012-04-13 Thread Sven Hartge
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:

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2012-04-13 Thread Yan Seiner
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

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2012-04-12 Thread Yan Seiner
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,

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2012-04-12 Thread Phil Pennock
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

[exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2012-04-11 Thread Yan Seiner
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

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2012-04-11 Thread Phil Pennock
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

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2005-09-30 Thread Oliver Kötter
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

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2005-09-30 Thread Marc Haber
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

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2005-09-30 Thread Marc Haber
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

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2005-09-30 Thread Oliver Kötter
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)

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2005-09-30 Thread Tony Finch
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Oliver Kötter wrote: Is there a way to tell exim not to encrypt anything? hosts_avoid_tls = * Tony. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dotat.at/ ${sg{\N${sg{\ N\}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}\

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2005-09-30 Thread Oliver Kötter
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

[exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2005-09-29 Thread Oliver Kötter
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.

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2005-09-29 Thread Oliver Kötter
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] --

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2005-09-29 Thread Oliver Kötter
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

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2005-09-29 Thread Oliver Kötter
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:

Re: [exim] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

2005-09-29 Thread Oliver Kötter
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