Re: [exim] Finding a couple of lost (in the exim spool) mess…

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Author: Seb James
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Finding a couple of lost (in the exim spool) messages
>Tim wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:30:23 +0000
>Seb James <seb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I'm hoping for a little advice on locating a couple of messages which
>> won't deliver and removing them. I've had a look at the utilities but
>> can't find one which will locate the message.
>
> In general, "exim -Mrm <exim message ID>" will remove a message from
> the queue. However looking at your log messages:
>
>> 2005-07-04 09:26:07 H=localhost [127.0.0.1] U=seb
>> F=<bloodstaink'srentberate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> temporarily rejected RCPT
>> <seb@localhost>: Could not complete sender verify
>
> these messages never made it onto the queue. It looks like user "seb"
> (that'll be you then ;) on the local machine tried to do SMTP to
> localhost, but the recipients were rejected due to seb@localhost not
> verifying as a valid e-mail address. So the messages don't exist
> (except possibly in your sending app, whatever that is, but not in
> Exim).


Hello Tim,

Thanks for the reply. Yes - I was wondering why I couldn't find the exim
message ID. Now I have to figure out what is trying to send those
messages, every 15 minutes..

Seb

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