Author: Chad Leigh -- Shire Net LLC Date: To: exim-users Old-Topics: [exim] really old mail hanging around Subject: fail instead of defer ?? Re: [exim] really old mail hanging around
On Jan 26, 2005, at 12:25 AM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have some really old mail hanging around in the queue. It is spam
> that was addressed to a "system" user that does not have a real login
> directory... In the passwd file it is shown as /nonexistent
>
> The message log for one of these (148 day old) messages shows
>
> 2004-08-31 08:40:49 mailman@??? R=userforward defer (-1): failed
> to stat /nonexistent/. (No such file or directory)
And as a follow-up, how can I set it so that this sort of system level
error causes a failure instead of a defer?
