Re: [Exim] delivering aborted - Spool file is locked

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, robert rotman wrote:
>
> > i've much traffic on my exim mailserver.
> > everithing works great, thank you all (especially Philip;)...
> >
> > now i've a mail in the spool directory which looks quite normal.
> > sender and recipient adress is workin ok but i get the message:
> >
> > Spool file is locked
> >
> > i've not found anithing in the docs, faq and mailinglist.
> >
> > what should i do with this error?
>
> I'll put something in the FAQ. This is not an error. It is perfectly
> normal on a busy host. What it means is that some Exim process, probably
> started by a queue runner, found that a message it wanted to deliver was
> already being worked on by some other process. If you set log_level less
> than 5 these warnings won't even be logged.
>

but this mail is in the queue for 4 days.
is this only a "ghost-id" and the real mail is processed by another id?
can i remove this mail from the queue?


robert