We have a mailstore which accepts mail via SMTP and delivers it to Cyrus IMAP using the LMTP driver. The Exim version is 4.63 and it's started like this: exim -bd & exim -q5m &
We rebooted this server last week and exim failed to start up. It logged this: 2007-01-02 17:52:57 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=524, no queue at startupruns, listening for SMTP on port 25 (IPv4) 2007-01-02 17:52:57 exim 4.63 daemon started: pid=525, -q5m, not listening for SMTP 2007-01-02 17:52:58 1H1gZk-000154-44 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=local_cyrus_user T=local_cyrus_deliver defer (-1): Failed to connect to socket /var/cyrus/imap/socket/lmtp for local_cyrus_deliver transport: Connection refused 2007-01-02 17:53:04 queue run: process 563 crashed with signal 15 while delivering 1H1ga7-000187-7q Both exim processes die, and nothing further is logged until the server is restarted. Both of the messages mentioned were already on the local queue when Exim was stopped, and they're delivered without problem when Exim is restarted successfully the following day. The socket error is probably because cyrus-imap hasn't finished initialising by the time Exim starts trying to deliver to it, which normally causes Exim to log this error and requeue the message, and should be nothing to worry about. My guess is that the fatal error is also caused by trying to deliver whilst the LMTP socket is starting up. Looking at the code that generates the logged error suggests that Exim expects to survive this kind of delivery failure. Everything else on this machine started up OK, and restarting Exim via the init scripts fixed the problem. So, I'm wondering why Exim crashed, and how a child of the queue runner process crashing manages to kill the queue runner and SMTP listener processes as well. I'd be grateful for advice from someone more familiar with the code... I don't want to have to manually restart Exim to get deliveries going every time one of our mailstores is rebooted. cheers, Adam. -- -------------------------------- Adam Stephens. Network Specialist - Email & DNS [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/
