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Re: exim "Frozen" messages?



On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:56:46AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
   > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:40:31AM -0500, S.D.A. wrote:
   > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:47:23PM -0500 or thereabouts, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
   > > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:20:51PM +0100, David Jardine wrote:
   > > 
   > > <cut>
   > > 
   > > > | to prevent some embarrassingly old stuff getting out. 
   > > > 
   > > > Deleting the information cache like that doesn't delete any messages
   > > > from the queue.  Old messages on the queue will still be sent.  See
   > > > what is on the queue by running 'mailq'.  Remove a message by running
   > > > 'exim -Mrm <id>' where <id> is a message id obtained from 'mailq' or
   > > > the log file.
   > > 
   > > Dman -- Is there a way to do this with all the que'ed messages at once?
   > > 
   > > I just looked and I have almost 50 messages in the mailq. Very time
   > > consuming to do each one by one.
   > 
   > The command is really
   > 
   > exim -Mrm <list of ids>
   > 
   > Cut-n-paste (dbl-click on output of mailq then middle-click) works well
   > but I suppose you could write a script to parse the output of mailq.
   > 
Still too much work. 

Would not as root, rm /var/spool/exim/input/* do the job more quickly?

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