[Tfug] exim questions

[Goldarg]

I think I did a little script like:

for x in `mailq | grep frozen`
do
echo $x
exim -Mrm $x
done


On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, John Gruenenfelder wrote:

> I have an exim queue that contains a large number of frozen messages.  They
> are undeliverable because the local address no longer exists.  They are mostly
> spam, however, and so exim can't send a bounce in return.  So... they just sit
> there... growing.
>
> How can I 1) flush this queue easily?  There are quite possibly some messages
> in there which are NOT for this long gone user, so I can just rm * in the
> directory.  2) How can I make exim just give up (and delete) on a message when
> the local address doesn't exist AND a bounce can't be sent?
>
> I've looked through the manual some, but most of what I've found are methods
> for forcing the queue to try again, not to give up.
>
>
> --
> --John Gruenenfelder    Research Assistant, Steward Observatory, U of Arizona
> johng@as.arizona.edu
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