HELP! E-mail suddenly stopped working!

[retypejonas]

Hello.

I have a problem i'd be very grateful to get help with.

Today when working on some scripts using php mail() i noticed no mails came trough.

Checked the Exim logfile and it's flooded with these kind of message;

2009-10-30 17:23:19 queue run: process 17516 crashed with signal 11 while delivering 1Mj6d9-0005dL-H4
2009-10-30 17:23:19 queue run: process 17517 crashed with signal 11 while delivering 1Mj1Z9-0006IE-Sl
2009-10-30 17:23:19 queue run: process 17520 crashed with signal 11 while delivering 1MkfV9-00032o-Fa
2009-10-30 17:23:19 queue run: process 17521 crashed with signal 11 while delivering 1MjBS9-0005C0-C0
2009-10-30 17:23:19 queue run: process 17523 crashed with signal 11 while delivering 1MioKL-0005mj-7j
2009-10-30 17:23:19 queue run: process 17524 crashed with signal 11 while delivering 1MWJsL-0006IP-2i

I have not changed anything in the server configuration today or in the recent days...

Searching around here brought me to a thread that suggested recompiling exim, but that didn't helped either.

Anyone have any ideas? Please!!

 

[stuconz]

Hi, newby to DA here. Im trying to find an answer to this question too. As well as those types of messages in the exim logs, the mail is queueing up and not being sent. (sometimes resending from the mail queue works, but more often not)

It started happening last Friday (Oct 30) for no apparent reason and like retypejonas, recompiling the exim file, restarting the services and also rebooting the server has made no difference. If anyone could provide some clues as to what might be going on, it would be appreciated.

Thanks
~Stu

 

[nobaloney]

Rebooting a 'nix server hardly ever works; the only time it's required is if you've updated your kernel. We've had servers run over a year.

Recompiling the exim file won't help either, unless you've figured out what you need to change, and have changed it.

If outgoing messages are stacking up in the queue, the most likely reason is that you don't have good resolving DNS. If incoming messages are stacking up in the queu, the most likely reason is that you're getting hit with a lot of collateral spam. That will be fixed in the next RC of SpamBlocker Technology exim.conf, hopefully out today, but in the meantime, or if you don't want to upgrade, you can set variables in your exim.conf so email is held in the queue only a day before it's frozen, and then only another day before it's deleted.

Jeff