Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> ps -auxwww|grep exim
>
> I'm willing to bet you're not running any queue runners. Start exim
> with -qX, where X is a time specification, e.g.
>
> I am running sendmail -bd -q15m as the command
> /usr/local/sbin/exim -q5m
>
> If you have a file /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh then someone has messed
> with that file, taking the -qX out. If you _don't_ have such a file,
> you need something like this in /etc/rc.conf :
>
> sendmail_enable="YES"
> sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m"
>
yes the sendmail is enabled in the rc.conf, but i've not enabled sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m"
>
> You may not want "-bd", since it causes an SMTP listener to be started.
> You also may not want to specify sendmail_flags, since the default may
> suit you (""-bd -q30m").
> You then need to edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf, specifying the path to exim
> as /usr/local/sbin/exim .
>
Actually the problem is that mailq grows to a very large extent. Even the local mails r not delivering it is
queued up and if i give a command exim -v -M and the messg id it goes. Also is there a command to return a
mail with invalid address and also bounced mails back to the senders
thanks
rajesh
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