Comments on: Removing a lot of frozen mails from Exim’s mail queue http://blog.peijnik.at/2008/03/25/removing-a-lot-of-frozen-mails-from-exims-mail-queue/ Stephan's Free Software blog Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:18:33 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: mickeyc http://blog.peijnik.at/2008/03/25/removing-a-lot-of-frozen-mails-from-exims-mail-queue/comment-page-1/#comment-67 mickeyc Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:10:45 +0000 http://www.sp.or.at/blog/2008/03/25/removing-a-lot-of-frozen-mails-from-exims-mail-queue/#comment-67 It might be handy to learn exiqgrep and xargs. I would have removed those frozen messages without writing to a file, with a simple: exiqgrep -z -i|xargs exim -Mrm It might be handy to learn exiqgrep and xargs. I would have removed those frozen messages without writing to a file, with a simple:

exiqgrep -z -i|xargs exim -Mrm

]]> By: sp http://blog.peijnik.at/2008/03/25/removing-a-lot-of-frozen-mails-from-exims-mail-queue/comment-page-1/#comment-13 sp Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:04:19 +0000 http://www.sp.or.at/blog/2008/03/25/removing-a-lot-of-frozen-mails-from-exims-mail-queue/#comment-13 exim -qff starts an exim queue runner process and causes that process to force delivery attempts for all messages, whether frozen or not. The solution I described is for messages which are frozen which are impossible to deliver for various reasons. In short that means frozen messages which are never going to be deliverable. Now instead of keeping them in your queue and waiting (as I described I had 2.5K messages queued) you can get rid of all of them immediately using my solution. Hope this comment clarifies that. exim -qff starts an exim queue runner process and causes that process to force delivery attempts for all messages, whether frozen or not.

The solution I described is for messages which are frozen which are impossible to deliver for various reasons. In short that means frozen messages which are never going to be deliverable. Now instead of keeping them in your queue and waiting (as I described I had 2.5K messages queued) you can get rid of all of them immediately using my solution.

Hope this comment clarifies that.

]]> By: Cap http://blog.peijnik.at/2008/03/25/removing-a-lot-of-frozen-mails-from-exims-mail-queue/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Cap Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:52:24 +0000 http://www.sp.or.at/blog/2008/03/25/removing-a-lot-of-frozen-mails-from-exims-mail-queue/#comment-14 I've been told you can type exim -qff I’ve been told you can type
exim -qff

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