On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 06:39 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I use exim4 for MTA and find its config counter-intuitive. > > No doubt my intuition finally(?) went haywire. > > Questions: > > 1. How do you tell it to clear the queue and forget about all messages? > And where is that queue anyway?
doing this should remove all the messages from your queue (untested):
# for x in `exim4 -bp | awk '/^[0-9]/ { print $3 }'`; do exim4 -Mrm $x; done
exim4 queue stuff should be under /var/spool/exim4
>
> 2. How do you tell the thing that when I use mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to use
> smtp
> but when crontab runs and my smarthost is d.e, don't try to send mail
> for root to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Is your smarthost config working otherwise? if so, just alias root to
'real-<your username here>'
-davidc
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