Re: Message is frozin
Ahhhh, thanks so much for the help. I had no idea what was going on.
The commands as offered helped me get one of the messages delivered
so that I could begin determining what was going on. I crossed-mounted my
home directory from a Debian linux box to a Red Hat box. This home
directory has a .forward which is an Exim filter file (used by Debian) but
completely not understood by sendmail on the Red Hat box. Thus the
problem.
Thanks for the help!
Paul
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 02:21:21PM -0400, Erik Mathisen wrote:
> 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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Paul Yeatman (858) 534-9896 pyeatman@ucsd.edu
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