Re: Exim - remove many messages
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 04:01:18AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Tue, Mar 26, 2002, Rory Campbell-Lange (rory@campbell-lange.net) wrote:
| > This is really a two part message. The first part is about removing many
| > messages from Exim. How does one do that easily, if one has to have
| > the precise id for each?
| >
| > Secondly, I'd like to make something like the line below work in bash.
| > Exim complains in this case of not finding a message with id "-".
| >
| > cat /tmp/e | exim -Mrm -
| >
| > I solved my problem cludgily by making an output file of exim -bp and
| > then vimming it so that it contained a set of "exim -Mrf <id> lines. I
| > then sourced the file.
| >
| > There must be a more elegant solution without using perl or python.
|
| ...or awk?
awk's good :-)
| I run the following to reject my long-time frozen messages:
|
| $ exim -Mg $( mailq | grep 'frozen' | awk '{print $3}' )
How about putting
# try resending after 15 minutes
auto_thaw = 15m
# if can't send after 8 days, cancel and notify sender
timeout_frozen_after = 8d
In your exim.conf file? Let exim do it for you :-). Adjust the time
values to suit.
-D
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