"Pipe delivery post timed out?"

kabads · 11-06-2003, 09:56 AM

I'm using Debian Sarge with the following email setup.
Mail travels in the following way

My pop account >>> fetchmail >>> procmail >>> spamassassin >>> procmail >>> exim >>> spool >>> sylpheed-claws

(at least I think that's what it's doing).

Everything works fine, but if I switch my computer off (which is normally when I go away for a few days) it seems that my exim starts spitting out messages to people or lists that have sent me emails.

They normally go something like:

Quote:

To: suse-linux-uk-schools-return-5391-me=mydomain.co.uk@suse.com
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
Message-Id: <E1ADBIr-0001ax-00@debian>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 00:25:09 +0100

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

adam@localhost
pipe delivery process timed out

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <suse-linux-uk-schools-return-5391-me=myddomain.co.uk@suse.com>
Received: from debian
([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=adam)
by debian with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian))
id 1ADALW-0001K6-00
for <adam@localhost>; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:23:50 +0100

Is exim returning them because the original date that header is much older than when exim handles it? Is it possible to configure this to allow for a longer duration?

thanks in advance.

ToniT · 11-16-2003, 08:33 PM

First look at the
discussion in the exim mailing list. There seems to be an other person having same kind of problems.

The toolchain is probably something like
fetchmail << pop account
fetchmail >> localhost:smtp
exim << localhost:smtp
|> procmail |> spamassassin
procmail <| spamassassin
exim <| procmail
exim >> spool

The broken pipe is probably because spamassassin takes too long while figuring out wether it is spam or not.