How to restart frozen mail in bulk

[mattft]

OK, so I'm moving servers and everything is going well. Transfers done and DNS looking good. However, one account's mail screwed up some how, and now I have 2000 messages on the old server in the Exim queue frozen. I've fixed the problems preventing delivery, and if I manually kick off each email, it gets delivered to the new server successfully.

Here is the problem though. If I try to use the "deliver everything in queue" nothing gets delivered because it's all frozen. I've tried various scripts revolving around

[codebox]exim -bp[/codebox]

But nothing gets returned form that query, so I can't get the message IDs to force a retry.

[codebox]exim -qff[/codebox]

does seem to have any effect either...

Any ideas! I really don't want to have to click on each email in WHM to get it delivered!

[nithintou]

# exiqgrep -z -i |xargs exim -M

[mattft]

# exiqgrep -z -i |xargs exim -M

exim: no message ids given after -M option

[mattft]

strange. I've found all of the mails in /var/spool/exim/input and /var/spool/exim/msglog. So I stick a few of the ID's in to

# exim -v -M <message ID>

and I get a reply saying it can't find the spool file...

<tears hair out>

[ebizindia]

exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mt

Now run a queue delivery.

[metsfan]

I find the ConfigServer Mail Queues plugin to be very useful. It has an option to retry frozen emails, though I've never used that feature so I can't say if it works or not.

It's a free plugin: http://www.configserver.com/cp/cmq.html

[mattft]

exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mt

Now run a queue delivery.

exim: no message ids given after -Mt option

Any other ideas?

[mattft]

I find the ConfigServer Mail Queues plugin to be very useful. It has an option to retry frozen emails, though I've never used that feature so I can't say if it works or not.

It's a free plugin: http://www.configserver.com/cp/cmq.html

wow! excellent script. Worked a treat. Thanks.