Re: [Exim] message still in Q even after delivery

On Tue, 28 May 2002, maillist wrote:

> but, whenever I force the Q (exim -v -qf) it disappears from the queue. Also, I
> found out this happens only when mail is coming from the web but, when we use
> mail program (like outlook) the that message ID disapperars from the queue after
> delivery.

I assume by 'coming from the web' you mean either form subission sort of
deal, or a webmail client..

Your exim does run suid root, right?

do

ls -l /path/to/exim

and

ls -l /path/to/spool/input/Message-ID


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave C." <djc@???>
> To: "maillist" <mailtolist@???>
> Cc: "exim list" <exim-users@???>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 6:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [Exim] message still in Q even after delivery
>
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>
>
> On Mon, 27 May 2002, maillist wrote:
>
> [..]
>
> > > [root@mail /root]# more /email/spool/mqueue/msglog/172CCT-00082N-00
> > > 2002-04-29 15:32:23 user@???: remote_smtp transport succeeded
> > >
> > >
> > > Any Clue?
> >
> > Message has more than one recipient?
> > exim -Mvh <message-id> to find out.
> >
> > no only one recipient. otherwise it will show in the queue (without D)
>
> ls -l the spool files - maybe somehow exim hasnt got permission to
> remove them. You might also want to grep mainlog for this ID..
>
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