robert rotman rearranged electrons thusly:
> (exigrep 'msg-id' /your/log/file)
> to delete them do somthing like:
> mailq | grep "*** frozen ***" | awk '/^*[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}'
> | sh
Erm... frozen messages can also be due to temporary DNS or other glitches at
either end, or because you accidentally had to restart your mailserver,
So, I prefer this first, before deleting every single frozen mail ...
I have 'auto_thaw = 1h' in configure - and auto-thaw tries to 'unfreeze' the
messages by attempting delivery of frozen messages at one hour intervals.
Or I can just do # exim -qff -v at the command prompt for a quick and dirty
unfreezing.
Of course, if these frozen messages are because of, say, a spammer trying to
dictionary attack your server, or someone trying to mail to assorted broken
recipient addresses (like those generated by a broken exchange server you
smarthost for, sometimes), feel free to delete the lot as above.
+suresh
CAUCE India - http://www.india.cauce.org
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Peter Salvage wrote:
> > I'm seeing hundreds of "message is frozen" if I do a tail -f mainlog...is
> > there a script to delete this or should I be looking elsewhere?
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Suresh Ramasubramanian + sureshr@???
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