On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 10:34:37AM -0500,
mjm <mike2@???> is thought to have said:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to clean out a mail queue on one of my exim (3.03) mail
> servers.
>
> When mailq is run, the oldest message is 34 days.
>
> However, when I run:
>
> exim_tidydb -t 15d /var/spool/exim retry
> exim_tidydb -t 15d -f /var/spool/exim wait-remote-smtp
>
>
> And then recheck the mail queue. There are messages still there that are
> 34 days old.
>
> I am probally missing something silly, but oh well...
>
> Any help in this matter is appricated in advance
>
> Thanks,
> MJ Massong
exim_tidydb doesn't remove any messages it only cleans out old entries in
databases. In this case, the retry database which tells exim how often to
retry connections to a given host and the wait-remote-smtp database which
contains information about messages waiting for delivery via remote smtp.
See:
http://www.us.exim.org/exim-html-3.00/doc/html/spec_toc.html#TOC775
For more info about the databases and using exim_tidydb.
To remove messages from queue, use the -Mrm or -Mg options, or setup
appropriate retry rules in your config. See:
http://www.us.exim.org/exim-html-3.00/doc/html/spec_toc.html#TOC664
for info on how to do that.
Tabor
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