On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:13:34PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: | Osamu => | > Did you check /var/spool/exim/input/ contents? | | No; but, now that I do, I find mail that I thought had been deleted | weeks ago -- *not* those messages that reappear after reboot, though. | Can I just delete these?
It's better not to delete them directly. Instead run
mailq
to get a listing of the messages (exim's id for the message, who it is
for, and a little more info).
Then run
exim -oMr <id>
to remove message <id> from the queue.
| > What happens if you run "exim -qff" from root on that machine.
|
| Takes nearly a minute to return to a prompt.
Slow delivery or slow to result in errors.
Check your mainlog (/var/log/exim/mainlog) to see why those messages
are stuck in the queue.
| > What kind of mail is it? Some message installation program created?
|
| Mostly post-crash messages about nvi recovery files, system messages
| to root, &c.
Do the nvi recovery files still exist? If so then it is possible they
are new messages getting re-generated each time.
| Any other ideas?
Find out what is wrong with your exim queue and work from there.
-D
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