Re: Exim4 mailq

[James <jmrautos@gmail.com>]

Stephen Allen wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> Yesterday for a 20 hr period, my Bell Canada telephone service was down,
> hence my DSL connection followed.
> 
> Since I have come back online, I've noticed that the e-mail I was
> assuming had gone out to my SMARTHOST, (before I noticed the DSL was
> down) is now in my Exim4 mailq.
> 
> I've been grokking the man page, but so far I haven't found a way, to
> force/tell Exim to send these messages along their merry way.

try exim4 -qff.
That will force exim to run its queue and ignore retry times and thaw
frozen messages.

What happens is when exim notices a host is down, it will not try to
send to that host again until its retry time has passed.

-- 
James Richardson