Thus spake Christopher Wolf:
> My exim tends to gather frozen messages caused when a fake email address
> tries to deliver to a no-longer existing email address on my domain. It
> generates an error response saying that user does not exist, but it cannot
> deliver the error to the fake user nor the intended address on my server,
> so it just freezes the message.
>
> Is there any way to get it to just throw these away, even if it's just
> after some amount of time?
A message remains in the spool directory until it is com
pletely delivered to its recipients or to an error
address, or until it is deleted by an administrator or by
the user who originally created it. In cases when delivery
cannot proceed - for example, when a message can neither
be delivered to its recipients nor returned to its sender,
the message is marked 'frozen' on the spool, and no more
deliveries are attempted. The administrator can thaw such
messages when the problem has been corrected, and can also
freeze individual messages by hand if necessary.
exim -bp will list queue
exim -Mrm <message-id> will clear frozen messages
man exim for more - long but well worth the read.
HTH,
Steve
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Never be afraid to tell the world who you are.
-- Anonymous
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