Re: [exim] Spool collecting but not sending

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Author: Phil Pennock
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To: Frank DeChellis DSL
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Spool collecting but not sending
On 2010-01-02 at 21:47 -0500, Frank DeChellis DSL wrote:
> For now I set exim -qff to run every 5 minutes through cron.


The -ff also retries frozen messages; it's good for an emergency poke
after fixing problems, but probably not what you want for routine runs.
-q or -qq should be fine (I use -qq).

> Is this assumption correct? if exim -qff with the new config file works,
> the permissions are set correctly in the spool and log files? And if the
> permissions were incorrect, exim could not write to the spool directory.


That matches my understanding.