On Tue, 22 May 2001, Simon Huggins wrote:
> On a machine of ours we have files left in /var/spool/exim/input dating
> from last week sometime which don't show up in mailq.
>
> They all end in -D and there are no corresponding -H files (except for
> the few valid messages still on the queue that just haven't been
> delivered yet).
D without H is an incomplete message. This could happen if, as a message
was arriving, its D file got written and then the system crashed. (Or
Exim crashed - but of course that would *never* happen. :-) I have a
note to investigate a way of bringing such wreckage to the admin's
attention. Meanwhile, if these are old files, the only thing you can
really do is just rm them.
> All the files in that directory have permissions:
> -rw------- 1 mail mail
> And the -H seem to contain valid messages there were indeed sent out
> last week (possibly the frozen messages I deleted with -Mrm but that
> should delete the files right?)
Er, I thought you said they were all -D files?
-Mrm should remove both the -H and the -D file.
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