On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 08:28:05PM -0400, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > I get a bunch of frozen emial in my exim4 queue. How can I tell what the > problem is? > > 21h 105K 1EG6ne-0006Kv-TB <> *** frozen *** > to_addr@yahoo.com > > Both the mail.log and mail.err in /var/log are empty: > > $ ls -l /var/log/mail.err /var/log/mail.log > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 07-10 06:47 /var/log/mail.err > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 07-10 06:47 /var/log/mail.log > > Anyway, I try to send one more with verbose option on, and get the > following result. How do I interpreter it? Is it yahoo's problem, which > is very unlikely, or something else? My guess is that the remote smtp server is/was down during the time you tried. So, after a few attempts, exim44 finds no means to deliver the messages and freezes them. To force a retry, do exim4 -qff as root. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
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