On Mon 06 Apr 2026 at 12:52:16 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: > By mistake I sent a message (mutt, fetchmail, exim) that was > missing a From: line in the header. As the result I'm deluged with > frozen messages.
Would this by any chance be the email with the Message-ID <[email protected]>, which bounced back to you, whereupon you replied to the bounce with https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2026/03/msg00363.html I don't know whether it's a coincidence that from the next day Dave (howarth) started having problems receiving your posts. > I understand that the command # exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm > removed all frozen mail. It does so but the broken message > continues to be received. Is that because exim is still trying to send the From-less mail, thereby generating new bounces for you to remove? > I went to The "timeout_frozen_after" setting is in > /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/02_exim4-config_options file and changed > MAIN_TIMEOUT_FROZEN_AFTER = 7d to 1 hr. That had no effect. I don't think exim reads the files in /etc/ when it's running. AFAIK it reads /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated, so you've need to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config for it to rebuild that file. > I purged exim4 and deleted the /etc/exi4 directory. I removed mutt > and fetchmail but assume that was not necessary. I commended the > existing mail queue and let exim build another. Is that "commented"? If so, I don't know how to comment a mail queue. It might be worth posting the commands you actually typed. > I rebooted and > rebuilt my mail system from scratch to no avail. And also what you typed here. (I don't know how different exim4 configuration is between Devuan and Debian.) Cheers, David.
