Hello Ron,
It sounds like these scripts could be very useful. It would be great if you
send me them. I was wandering why these queues happen in the first place
though? do you know if there is a mechanism in Exim that I can use to
prevent them?
Thanks for your help,
Rich
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron McKeating [
mailto:R.J.Mckeating@lboro.ac.uk]
Sent: 13 February 2004 10:00
To: Richard Marshall
Cc: 'exim-users@???'
Subject: Re: [Exim] Frozen Messages
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:29, Richard Marshall wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have approx. 800 message in the queue on my exim 4.30 server. The
majority
> of these messages are Frozen, and I believe are being caused by the vast
> amount of spam the we recieve. I think that latest MyDoom worm has
probably
> contributed too. I have tried running #/usr/sbin/exim4 -qff to clear the
> queues but it doesn't appear to help.
>
> How can I get my queue down to a reasonable level without the risk of
> loosing valid mails?
>
We have a couple of very handy perl scripts,one called investigate_mail
and the other called remove_mail. The both take a string as an argument
and search all the jobs in the queue for that string. The investigate
script displays each email it finds with that string in it, the delete
deletes each email with that string in.
So when we have lots of auto generated bounce messages the command
/usr/local/etc/remove_mail 'Auto-Submitted: auto-generated'
Will remove vast quantities of crap from our queues (this morning it
deleted around 1800 queued jobs). You are welcome to have a copy of them
if you wish.
Ron
> Thanks
>
> Richard
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