I had this happen to me not too long ago. What was happening to me
someone was sending email to my system to an alias that was not
properly configured. What I did, a tail on the /var/log/exim/mainlog
and found the message ID's that were frozen. I then ran a :
exim -M <message id> <message id> .....
That causeed exim to try to deliver the messages again (in my case I
fixed the alias, and it delivered a few messages then). I then waited
for exim to run through its queue again (I think it set a 15 minutes
on my system. Once it ran thru the queue again (you can use tail -f
/var/log/exim/mainlog to watch it), I issued a :
exim -Mrm <message id>
for all of the messages left frozen in the queue. This cleared
everything up, and I have not had any frozen messages since. I
believe there is an option to mail the frozen files to a user, but I
can not remember the command. Do a man exim if you are interested.
I hope this helps,
Erik
--
Erik Mathisen <erik@mathisen.us>
http://erik.mathisen.us
I was walking down the street and all of a sudden the prescription for
my eye-glasses ran out ....
--Steven Wright
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:07:13AM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> Hi, a want to quickly check the list here to see if anyone knows anything
> about the following. I came in today and had 4 or 5 messages with subject
> line "Message frozen" and contents as such:
>
> Envelope-to: postmaster@genesis.ucsd.edu
> From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@genesis.ucsd.edu>
> To: postmaster@genesis.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Message frozen
> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 04:02:05 -0700
>
> Message 17KGkP-0001AK-01 has been frozen. The sender is <>.
>
> The following address(es) have yet to be delivered:
> deliver.pyeatman@genesis.ucsd.edu: unknown local-part "deliver.pyeatman" in
> +domain "genesis.ucsd.edu"
>
> When I check /var/log/exim/maillog, there are lots of "Message is frozen"
> messages from multiple message ID's. Each half hour, it complains about the
> same set of messages. For instance, if I grep for the message ID
> of the above message in the maillog, a new "Message is frozen" message is
> repeated each half hour:
>
> 2002-06-18 06:38:02 17KGkP-0001AK-01 Message is frozen
> 2002-06-18 07:08:01 17KGkP-0001AK-01 Message is frozen
> 2002-06-18 07:38:01 17KGkP-0001AK-01 Message is frozen
> 2002-06-18 08:08:01 17KGkP-0001AK-01 Message is frozen
> 2002-06-18 08:38:01 17KGkP-0001AK-01 Message is frozen
> 2002-06-18 09:08:01 17KGkP-0001AK-01 Message is frozen
> 2002-06-18 09:38:01 17KGkP-0001AK-01 Message is frozen
> 2002-06-18 10:08:01 17KGkP-0001AK-01 Message is frozen
> 2002-06-18 10:38:01 17KGkP-0001AK-01 Message is frozen
>
> Anyone have any idea what is going on, what to do about it or how to
> stop it? Is it an attack?
>
> Thanks!
>
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