On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Marten Lehmann wrote:

> I have several files in the queue (input) like data parts without 
> headers, headers without data parts, and a file in the msglog directory 
> without an according file in input.
> 
> I don't know how they became orphaned, but will exim remove them eventually?

No. A data part without a header could be a message that is in the 
process of being received, but not if it remains that way for a long 
time.

> A queue run with exim -qqff doesn't show any remaining mails.

-H files without -D files should show some kind of error.

> In this setup the mailserver will be taken out of service, so I could 
> remove these entries manually. But I'm afraid that the same may occur on 
> our production mailservers and nobody would notice.

This is the first time I can recall that anybody has reported this 
problem. Maybe somebody should write a utility to check for this?


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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