exim: pipe delivery process timed out

From: Michael D Schleif (mds_at_helices.org)
Date: 09/30/03

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    Sadly, for the last three days, although swen is starting to abate, I
    have encountered a new email malady ;<

       # sudo exim -bV
       Exim version 3.36 #1 built 26-Aug-2003 22:39:06
       Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2002

    [1] Generally, I receive between 2,000 and 3,000 emails per day, and
    prior to this new problem, have *not* had any exim queue problems.

    [2] Now that this problem has begun, I notice -- often, but not always
    -- that `exim -bp' shows several dozens of queued messages. While I
    have been querying, only one has shown as frozen.

    [3] I am finding several messages in rejectlog, with this message:

       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:

         mds@localhost
           pipe delivery process timed out

    [4] Although, some of these are swen, or spam related, the majority of
    these messages are not. In fact, I have several automated remote
    monitoring messages that have come to me regularly for years, that now
    -- sometimes -- end up going through this bounce nightmare, and do not
    get to me other than as:

       failure notice
       Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

    Unfortunately, anything below exim 4 appears to the user community as
    antiquated, and nothing helpful is forthcoming. Also, I find myself up
    to my eyeballs in customer problems, so I have little available time
    right now to tinker with this, even if I knew what I was doing ;>

    What can cause this problem?

    More importantly, what can I do about this?

    What do you think?

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