Neohexa » spool http://neohexa.com Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:10:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Fix Exim “Error while creating mbox spool file” http://neohexa.com/2009/07/how-to-fix-exim-error-while-creating-mbox-spool-file/ http://neohexa.com/2009/07/how-to-fix-exim-error-while-creating-mbox-spool-file/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:47:11 +0000 admin http://mrtrier.net/blog/?p=3 Sometimes the files and directores in /var/spool/exim/scan do not get purged, which leads to the inability of the system to create new files and directories in this location.

  1. Stop Exim
  2. Move to /var/spool/exim/scan
  3. Delete all files in above directory- ‘ls -l | xargs rm -rf’
  4. Start Exim

Problem solved.

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