Re: [Exim] Timing out frozen messages

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Auteur: John W Baxter
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Aan: exim-users
Oude Onderwerpen: [Exim] Timing out frozen messages
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] Timing out frozen messages
At 17:11 +0100 10/11/2000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> timeout_frozen_after = 5d
>
>This would operate like this: if a queue runner found a frozen messsage
>that was that old, it would get rid of it, in one of two ways:
>
>  (a) If the message is not a bounce message, it will generate a bounce,
>      exactly as if the -Mg option had been used to force Exim to give
>      up.

>
> (b) If the message is a bounce message, it will just discard it.
>
>Anybody like to comment?


Although I haven't run into the problem since early in our Exim experience,
I think the above makes good sense. It's possible that case (a) will
create a frozen bounce in exchange for the message which was dealt with,
but that will eventually go away...and it's also possible that the give up
message will go through and be helpful to the original sender.

--John