Re: exim4 only queues mails sent by systemd service

[kjonca@xxxxx (Kamil Jońca)]

Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mo, 24.09.18 20:34, Kamil Jońca (kjonca@xxxxx) wrote:
>> >     This didn't work well enough IIRC, but if it did, then it'd provide almost postfix-like architecture.
>> >
>> > Or just making 'sendmail' send a SIGALRM to the main daemon would do the job perfectly well, I suspect...
>> 
>> But I still does not know, where is the problem, why exim doest not play
>> well with systemd ...
>
> Here's an educated guess: your script terminates, so that that systemd
> decides your service has ended. In such a case it kills any left-over
> processes of the service, and this will include the exim process
> forked off into the bg, because it is attributed to your script's
> context.
I made some tests  (ie.add sleep at end of exec line),
and this confirms your explanation.
But ... why this is working as --user service? pure luck?

KJ

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