The problem was, the directories were never empty. Vim seems to repeatedly
put old messages on the spool no matter how man times I delete them or
restore old versions of textfiles, and of course I had to check out messages
exim had put on the spool. Still, good to know
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Hazel" <ph10@???>
To: "davidturetsky" <davidturetsky@???>
Cc: "exim-users" <exim-users@???>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Spool file locked
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, davidturetsky wrote:
>
> > I removed the 'lists' section and commented out
> > 'split-spool-directory=true and went to /etc/spool/exim/input and
> > deleted all the 62 directories, since current mail volume does not
> > require split spools and it is a lot easier seeing what's going on
>
> You need not have done this. Exim would have deleted them for you when
> it discovered you had unset the option and the directories were empty.
