RE: [Exim] Frozen message management

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Author: John Horne
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To: Exim Users List
Subject: RE: [Exim] Frozen message management
On 15-Nov-00 at 13:10:52 Graham Leggett wrote:
> I have a mailserver with a full mailqueue - it's turned out there are
> frozen messages in this queue from the last four months.
>
> I would like the system to deal with undeliverable messages on their own
> - in other words I would like failed messages to bounce, and double
> bounces to be deleted so as to prevent the mailqueue clogging up.
>

I gather the latest testing version (3.169) has a main configure file option
('timeout_frozen_after') to remove frozen messages after a specified time.
Bounces should be dealt with by the 'ignore_errmsg_errors_after'
option - available since 1.70 the options file says...:-)

John.

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