Exim ACL Ratelimit Database Not Available

In your Exim logs you may see errors like this:

Warning: ACL "warn" statement skipped: condition test deferred: ratelimit database not available

temporarily rejected connection in ?connect? ACL: ratelimit database not availab

This likely means the Exim cache databases are corrupted. You can clear them by running:

rm -fv /var/spool/exim/db/*

Then restart Exim.

The files in question are:

• /var/spool/exim/db/ratelimit
• /var/spool/exim/db/ratelimit.lockfile
• /var/spool/exim/db/retry
• /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile
• /var/spool/exim/db/wait-dk_remote_smtp
• /var/spool/exim/db/wait-dk_remote_smtp.lockfile
• /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp
• /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile