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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
> 
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