Re: [exim] orphaned files in input and msglog

Marten Lehmann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have several files in the queue (input) like data parts without
> headers, headers without data parts, and a file in the msglog directory
> without an according file in input.
>
> I don't know how they became orphaned, but will exim remove them eventually?
>
> A queue run with exim -qqff doesn't show any remaining mails.
>
> In this setup the mailserver will be taken out of service, so I could
> remove these entries manually. But I'm afraid that the same may occur on
> our production mailservers and nobody would notice.
>
> Regards
> Marten
>

One might surmise that the server exhibiting the problem has had one or more
crashes / rude shutdowns?

Bill