Re: [Exim] Missing mail?

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Missing mail?
kend@??? [exim-users] <02/07/01 09:00 -0400>:
> We took a power hit over the weekend, so our mail was mailbagged
> externally until we came back up. Unfortunately, when we came
> back up, automount wasn't started properly (nothing like a power
> outage to show you what you don't have starting properly).
> Anyway, it failed delivery because it couldn't stat homedirs...
> but it hasn't bounced, either. Bottom line: where's the mail?
> Is it still floating around, waiting (say) four hours to retry
> delivery? The bit bucket? Or...?


# mailq

You'll see a lot of messages with ***frozen*** there.

Now, when you have finished mounting every filesystem, permissions are ok,
etc - just run exim -qff -v >& /tmp/ex.log& - and keep a tail -f of the
ex.log file. Start multiple exim -qff -v processes if there's too much mail
in the queue (though as the delivery is likely to be local it'll be rapid)

    --suresh