On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 08:15, Oliver Egginger wrote:
> I had a lot of frozen virus mails.
> To remove them I stopped Exim
> and removed the corresponding files manually from the "input" and "msglog"
> directorys.
Don't do that - it happens to be relatively safe, but messing with an
applications private spool area can have nasy side effects.
Your best bet is to use the -Mrm switch to exim to remove them from the
queue - ie use awk or similar to list the target messages:-
mailq | awk '/\*\*\* frozen \*\*\*/ {print $3}'
and xargs that exim -Mrm
You can do this without pausing the mail system.
> Is that enough?
> Will the files in the db directory updated automatic ?
db files are hints - they may be wrong, so don't really matter. You can
blow the hints away completely if you wish (and its sometimes worth
doing - those db files can bloat).
Nigel.
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