undeliverable mail

[joh2900]

I'm getting alot of mail building up in /var/spool/exim/input. Can I delete these, and how can i stop this.

Most seem to be undeliverable.

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

The best way is to decrease the:

timeout_frozen_after = 7d

value to something like 1d in the /etc/exim.conf and restart exim. If you shut down exim you might be able to delete spool, but I can't recommend that as I'm not sure if exim would throw a fit or not.

John

[Seth]

Thank you, this has resolved a longtime problem on one of my servers :-)

[nobaloney]

Originally posted by DirectAdmin Support
The best way is to decrease the:

timeout_frozen_after = 7d

value to something like 1d in the /etc/exim.conf and restart exim.
I've been using timeout_frozen_after = 5d, but in my release version I'm lowering that to four days, to be compatible with the default sendmail install (which is what most admins probably expect).

If you shut down exim you might be able to delete spool, but I can't recommend that as I'm not sure if exim would throw a fit or not.
There's a command you can send to exim (I don't recall it :( ) that'll unfreeze all frozen messages based on criteria you specify, try them one more time, and then delete them from the spool.

Jeff