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Re: Exim questions..



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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Greetings,
>
> I have a pototo(2.2) debian system on which I'm trying out exim_3-12-10
> as the Mail Transport Agent.
>
> Questions/Problems:
>
> 1. How do I delete a frozen email messages from the queue. ( I have
>    several test messages which are sitting there when I was trying out
>    /etc/aliases.)

exim -Mrm <message id number> ...

You need to do that as root, though

> 2. eximstats, exiqsumm seem to hang indefinitely. Why would this be?

They're waiting for input.  Try using them like this:

cat /var/log/exim/mainlog | eximstats

or

mailq | exiqsumm

> Other than these things, I'm quite happy with exim, particularly from
> somone who has read the Bat book, but still needed to have it open
> when configuring sendmail.

I find that the exim equivalent of "the Bat book" (installed on Debian
systems as /usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz) is one hell of a lot more
helpful :)

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