[svlug] exim retrying message delivery forever...

[Mark Symonds]

Hello, 

On Monday 10 July 2006 15:14, Matt Billenstein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using the default retry rule in my exim.conf:
>

[...]

>
> But I sent an email some 73 days ago and I get a failure message every
> day...  How do I clear this out?
>

You can try running exim_tidydb against the retry database.  To remove 
anything more than two days old:  

exim_tidydb -t 2d /var/spool/exim retry  

(make sure your path to the spool directory is correct; above is only an 
example.) 

You should have a cronjob in /etc/cron.daily/exim or some similar that does 
this for you automatically. 

Best,

Mark