On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 09:42:36PM +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> I'm using Exim 4.24 and I'm having a problem with frozen messages
> sticking around for quite a long time. I have the following currently
> showing up in my queue:
> 3d 2.0K 1AmFDC-000KQ1-HU <>
> jfdfjhh@???
> 64h 2.1K 1AmRMn-0009oP-6V <>
> jfdfjhh@???
These messages are not frozen, the are not marked with "*** frozen
***" in mailq's output.
> In my exim configure file, I have the following lines which I think
> should be relevant to this problem:
> ignore_bounce_errors_after = 1d
> timeout_frozen_after = 2d
> Looking at that, I can't understand why I would still have messages that
> are 3 days old in the queue.
[...]
| This option affects the processing of bounce messages that cannot be
| delivered, that is, those that suffer a permanent delivery failure.
Your bounce messages have not yet suffered a _permanent_ error but a
temporary one (connection timed out, etc.), check the logfiles.
cu andreas
