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On Tuesday 22 February 2005 12:29 am, Neil Stone wrote:
Neil Williams wrote: | I've got a v.v.v.long mailqueue and lots of blocked internal messages. | | Some of the error messages read using # exim -Mvb | | root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | unknown local-part "root" in domain "garfield.codehelp" Do you have roots mail box aliased some place ?
Yes, but it was more messed up than that - it was trying a reverse lookup on the main domain MX which was refusing authorisation for an SMTP relay operation - not surprisingly. Only now have I managed to sift through 6,589 messages (!) 8.4MB of mail! and clear the queue. I had permission problems on the mail spool, I had this reverse lookup thing that I still don't quite understand and then a non-existent user. R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post /var/mail/neil.lock The user problem was down to cron sending email as my internet address, not local. Still haven't figured out what I did to cause that. In the end, I stopped reverse lookups by exim: #host_lookup = * commented out: freeze_tell_mailmaster = true (adding more to the queue wasn't going to help!) and then I added the non-existent user as an alias to me in /etc/aliases Finally, I've got no more mail queue. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.dcglug.org.uk/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.neil.williamsleesmill.me.uk/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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