Re: [exim] Recommended way to clear the frozen/retry queue

[John Burnham]

> 
> I have a need to clean up the retry queue.. when I start exim 
> or view the queue we have hundreds
> of messages in there that just seem to sit for weeks. I'd 
> like to manually get rid of them just
> for cleanliness' sake.
> 
> However what I would really like is to see the mails first; 
> they're all incoming and waiting for
> DNS/smtp verification or some other stalled check. Just the
> 
> 2007-03-05 16:47:22 1HN9a6-000C8q-05 == 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry 
> time not reached
> 2007-03-05 16:47:22 1HNx7n-000MRL-CK Message is frozen
> 2007-03-05 16:47:22 1HNYT8-000H50-B3 Message is frozen
> 2007-03-05 16:47:22 1HNZnR-000IhT-Qf Message is frozen
> 
> Something like this. Is there an option I can pass to exim or 
> some other program to get more
> data on these frozen or retrying messages?

Well, you could try a delivery with debugging turned on:
exim -d -M {message-id}

> 
> Then.. once I have that data and am comfortable nuking a 
> message (or all of them) what exactly
> is the command for it? I read through the manual for an hour 
> and it isn't very "instructive"
> even if it is informative as to queue options and handling.. 
> I'd really just rather be told what
> the exact specific option is and what it needs to be paired with :D
> 

You're kidding, right ? Read
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.66/doc/html/spec_html/ch05.html

There's all the command line options. The one for deleting is 
exim -Mrm (and then a list of message-ids)
You can combine 
exim -bpu (which lists the messages in the queue) with grep and awk and whatever
to get a list of the message-ids you want and then use xargs to feed them to
exim -Mrm.
 J


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