On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Adam Stephens wrote: > 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 &
As a matter of interest, why not exim -bd -q15m ? That is, why two daemons instead of one? (And you don't need the '&' when starting a daemon; it disconnects itself from the terminal unless debugging is turned on.) > 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. If you can reproduce the effect, try adding -d to the exim commands to get debugging output (written to stderr). Without more information, there's not much more to say. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## 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/
