At 12:09 -0400 8/14/2001, <kend@???> wrote:
>Okay, it's a dumb question, but I've gone through the docs, and searched for
>"delete" and "remove", and gotten nothing that seemed pertinent. The
>messages are frozen 'cause the remote site is bogus, so I don't want to
>bother with an "exim -qf", but I don't know where to go. Do I just delete
>them by hand from the spool directory? That seems inelegant, but, if it's
>the "proper" solution, no biggie... but I do want to be sure I'm doing The
>Right Thing.
RTFM, options index, -Mrm
The -Mrm option to the exim (or sendmail, in many installations where that
is an alias to exim) takes one or more message IDs, and removes those
messages from the queue. It logs a "removed" message.
You can also arrange for frozen messages to be autothawed (and tossed out
when they get old enough), and you can deal with frozen error messages
separately
RTFM, among others, options auto_thaw, and ignore_errmsg_errors_after (the
latter showed up relatively recently...it goes back *at least* as far as
3.12 where we were using it).
Messing about "by hand" in Exim's queue isn't really a good idea...the -Mrm
option doesn't count as "by hand" since you're simply instruction Exim to
do whatever it needs to do to remove the message(s).
The Book is downstairs and I'm upstairs, so I haven't checked The Book.
--John
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John Baxter jwblist@??? Port Ludlow, WA, USA
