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 gene

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 w

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)" 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

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 the

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

2012-04-13 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Yan Seiner (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

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

2012-04-13 Thread Nigel Metheringham
And another entropy source - not tried it myself, but heard good things about it:- http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ Nigel. -- ## 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:/

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 devices

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

2012-04-12 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)

2012-04-12 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

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 > curren

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 sl

[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 s

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 anything

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

2005-09-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:09:27 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Kötter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, from what I understand exim trys to encrypt that message or something from >that communication >to the destination server? Yes. Exim uses TLS automatically if the remote host advertises STARTTLS. >But why do

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

2005-09-30 Thread Marc Sherman
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

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}}\ \N}{([^N]*)(.)(

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 p

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 sa

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

2005-09-30 Thread Oliver Kötter
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/kerne

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 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)

2005-09-29 Thread Marc Sherman
Oliver Kötter wrote: 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] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host mydomain.cc ;; Warning: ID mismatch: expected ID 35399, got 44095

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

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 > p

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

2005-09-29 Thread Marc Sherman
Oliver Kötter wrote: 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

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 http://www.exi

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]

[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.