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Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?



On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:23:02PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for 
> something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is weeks... months 
> old. Periodically, it would get pretty full and we'd notice that there 

These messages are probably marked by Exim as "frozen". Search for that
term in Exim's documentation for more info.

You may enable Exim to automatically remove frozen messages after some
period with the following directive:
timeout_frozen_after = 3d

Marcin



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