Re: frozen Exim message
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 05:49:56PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> ->>In response to your message<<-
> --received from Matthew Daubenspeck--
> >
> > On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 05:34:11PM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> > > Hi, what does one do with something like the following
> > > frozen message (using Exim):
> > >
> > > 20d 13K 1BE46H-000069-00 <> *** frozen ***
> > > yhoon80@yahoo.co.kr
> > >
> > > I can force delivery but it remains frozen because "yhoon80" is not a
> > > known user at yahoo.co.kr and apparently the return address is
> > > undeliverable as well, I assume.
> >
> > Remove it. As root, use:
> >
> > exim -Mrm 1BE46H-000069-00
>
> Ah, thanks for the info and quick reply! As the exim documentation is
> large, I searched for "frozen" but this didn't lead me to -Mrm.
>
> I'm curious how such a message gets on my system. As I didn't send
> such a message to anyone named "yhoon80", is my hostname being spoofed
> by someone as a return address? Is there any way to read the message's
> header information?
>
Look for the file in /var/spool/exim4/. There should be three files with
the same prefix (1BE46H-000069-00). One would be the body, one the
header and one exim's data. You can open them with an editor.
> Paul
>
> >
> > --
> > Matthew Daubenspeck
> > http://www.oddprocess.org
> >
> > 20:38:08 up 20 days, 1:27, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> >
> >
> > --
> > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
> >
>
> --
> Paul Yeatman (858) 534-9896 pyeatman@ucsd.edu
> ==================================
> ==Proudly brought to you by Mutt==
> ==================================
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System
> at the Tel-Aviv University CC.
>
Reply to: