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? -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
