Re: [Exim] Exim 3.36 - how are frozen messages deleted

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Murray Alexander wrote:

> The online doc says that a "queue runner" should delete these, but it isn't
> happening. Where should I look to find out why and fix it?

a cron job that erases the retry database every once in a while.

> P.S. The online doc also says that bounce messages will be cancelled (just
> deleted), whereas other messages will be bounced. I don't want anything
> bounced, because it's spam and there's no point. Is there an option to say
> "just cancel any and all frozen messages older than the timeout"?

thaw them after a while (Y), and write a director that
:blackhole:s those messages that have been sitting on the queue for
longer than some time (X). X and Y shall have some kind of a
correlation, of course, and their values thought of carefully.

> should set the timeout to '0s' (to turn it off, right?), then knock together
> a Perl script to periodically check for and delete messages?

this could work.

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