Ok, I ran mailq and saw the frozen message. Then a exim -qff sent it
through just fine. One last thing - How long will a message stay
frozen? The messages i'm concerned about were sent two weeks ago or so,
would they still be around? I didn't see them with mailq - but I'm not
sure if there should be any there or not.
Thanks a lot for all the help, I appreciate it
dan
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:09:29PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:01:20PM +0100, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> > Dan Rue wrote:
> > >I have an interesting scenario that I need help with -
> > >
> > >I set up a few email accounts and I immediatly created a .forward file
> > >in the home directories. Only problem is they were root:root - I forgot
> > >to chown them.
> > >
> > >When that user with a root:root .forward file receives an email, it
> > >seems to disappear. It does not bounce back, and it is not in /var/mail
> > >
> > >I had this happen to some potentially important messages - so where are
> > >they?
> > >
> > >FYI: exim 3.35 on a debian woody box
>
> I had a similar problem when someone had a configuration option
> spelled incorrectly in their forward file.
>
> Try running mailq, it should show you if there are any messages that
> have been frozen due to a .forward file problem...
>
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