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

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:53:31 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Kötter
<oliver.koetter@...> wrote:
>Marc Haber schrieb:
>> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:53:04 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Kötter
>> <oliver.koetter@...> 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

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... message) ... Sorry, of course it is repeated every 30 _minutes_ Oliver -- Oliver Kötter oliver@... -- ## List details at... 		Oliver Kötter
oliver.koetter@... Send Email 		Sep 29, 2005
10:37 am

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...
Oliver Kötter
oliver.koetter@... Send Email 		Sep 29, 2005
10:59 am

... Sorry, of course it is repeated every 30 _minutes_ Oliver -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at...
Oliver Kötter
oliver@... Send Email 		Sep 29, 2005
12:28 pm

... 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: ...
Marc Sherman
msherman@... Send Email 		Sep 29, 2005
12:52 pm

... 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...
Oliver Kötter
oliver.koetter@... Send Email 		Sep 29, 2005
4:14 pm

... msherman@pyloric:~$ host mydomain.cc ;; Warning: ID mismatch: expected ID 35399, got 44095 ;; Warning: ID mismatch: expected ID 35399, got 65267 ;;...
Marc Sherman
msherman@... Send Email 		Sep 29, 2005
5:22 pm

... 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...
Oliver Kötter
oliver.koetter@... Send Email 		Sep 30, 2005
7:56 am

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:53:04 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Kötter ... What does cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail say? Greetings Marc -- ... Marc Haber...
Marc Haber
mh+exim-users@... Send Email 		Sep 30, 2005
8:24 am

... ups, logs were mixed up in my previous mail, mainlog.1 was after mainlog, so please watch the time... -- Oliver Kötter -- ## List details at...
Oliver Kötter
oliver.koetter@... Send Email 		Sep 29, 2005
4:17 pm

... 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? ...
Oliver Kötter
oliver.koetter@... Send Email 		Sep 30, 2005
8:56 am

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:53:31 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Kötter ... It's good in a way that we now know what is going on on your system, but bad in a way that there...
Marc Haber
mh+exim-users@... Send Email 		Sep 30, 2005
11:11 am

... 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...
Oliver Kötter
oliver.koetter@... Send Email 		Sep 30, 2005
12:39 pm

... 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...
Marc Sherman
msherman@... Send Email 		Sep 30, 2005
1:46 pm

... OK, wrote remote_smtp: debug_print = "T: remote_smtp for $local_part@$domain" driver = smtp hosts_avoid_tls = * to my...
Oliver Kötter
oliver.koetter@... Send Email 		Sep 30, 2005
3:48 pm

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:09:27 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Kötter ... Yes. Exim uses TLS automatically if the remote host advertises STARTTLS. ... Because their target...
Marc Haber
mh+exim-users@... Send Email 		Sep 30, 2005
1:48 pm

... hosts_avoid_tls = * Tony. -- <fanf@...> <dot@...> http://dotat.at/ ${sg{\N${sg{\ ...
Tony Finch
dot@... Send Email 		Sep 30, 2005
12:39 pm
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