On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:40:13AM -0500, Scott Raun wrote: > I'm running exim, and have discovered a need to be able to > automagically delete the frozen messages from my outbound queue. I > went through the exim man page the other day, and couldn't find a way > to identify the currently frozen messages. > > Anyone have a suggestion for what / where I should look? I'm > currently running Debian Stable. I've solved this by placing the following script in /etc/cron.daily/: --- cut here --- #!/bin/sh # Quick script to discard all messages which have been frozen long enough # that their age is listed in days (3 days appears to be the breakpoint) exim -Mrm `exim -bp | grep "^..d.*frozen" | cut -c 11-26` &>/dev/null exit 0 --- cut here --- There may be other officially-endorsed methods in exim4, but I set this up a few years back and it's worked so well, I haven't had any reason to look for another way of doing it. -- I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much Liberty than those attending too small degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson