On 2006-10-08 09:26:35 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> For outgoing TLS exim reads from /dev/urandom which *does* drain
> entropy but switches to a prng instead of blocking when there is no
> more entropy.

This is strange, because it really seems to be related to the entropy.
Is there a way to get more information (debugging mode...) on what
exim is doing?

> > Concerning the mail, it is still in the queue, but the exim4 log file
> > doesn't show any error! And "exim -qff" doesn't solve the problem.
> > Here are the contents of /var/log/exim4/mainlog:
> 
> [...]
> > 2006-10-08 00:22:13 1GWKYf-00043q-HN <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=lefevre P=local 
> > S=778 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 2006-10-08 00:22:23 Start queue run: pid=15622
> > 2006-10-08 00:22:23 1GWKYf-00043q-HN Spool file is locked (another process 
> > is handling this message)
> [...]
> 
> What does exiwhat say?

ay:/home/lefevre# exiwhat
 2165 daemon: -q5m, listening for SMTP on [127.0.0.1]:25
15602 delivering 1GWt31-00043d-2z: waiting for a remote delivery subprocess to 
finish
15604 delivering 1GWt31-00043d-2z to pilet.ens-lyon.fr [140.77.167.16] ([EMAIL 
PROTECTED], ...)
ay:/home/lefevre# ps -aef|grep exim
108       2165     1  0 Oct07 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q5m
root     15602     1  0 13:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 
1GWt31-00043d-2z
108      15604 15602  0 13:11 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 
1GWt31-00043d-2z
root     15687 15648  0 13:14 pts/5    00:00:00 grep exim

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