Author: Randy Bush Date: To: Philip Hazel CC: Ben Smithurst, exim users Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: forcing retry from the command line
>>>> How about `rm /var/spool/exim/db/retry.*` ? That will destroy all the >>>> retry hints, so the next delivery attempt won't see them.
>>> this is actually save to do?
>> AFAIK, yes, since no crucial data is stored in those databases. They're
>> all just hints to delivery processes. Someone is bound to correct me if
>> I'm wrong though. :-)
> No need. You are correct. It is always safe to rm db/* in Exim's spool.
> The information is all hints. You won't lose any mail. Of course,
> deleting the hints will change Exim's behaviour - it won't know to wait
> before retrying so will try a delivery of every message on the queue at
> the next queue run.
